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AP - Two-time defending champion Chelsea moved into first place in the Premier League on Saturday, beating Fulham 2-0 on two goals by Frank Lampard.
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Manning throws six touchdown passes, including three each to Stokley and Harrison, as Indianapolis rolls to its fourth consecutive victory.
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The African Union gives the Sudanese government and Darfur rebels until 1700 GMT on Sunday to stop fighting.
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Former Hewlett-Packard chief Carleton S. Fiorina ordered the first of a series of leak investigations in January 2005, she says in an long-anticipated memoir.
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CEO Kevin Rollins hints that computer maker's usage of Advanced Micro Devices' processors is now more a question of when, not if.
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Ziff Davis - Its next test center will be in Scotland, the company said at EPGglobal, where it also announced its first RFID toolkit and an RFID warehouse management solution.
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JL Lewis shot a 10-under 62 for his best start ever on the PGA Tour and a two-shot lead Thursday in the Funai Classic at Disney. Lewis putted for birdie on every hole and made 11 of them on the Magnolia course to match his career-low round.
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( InfoWorld ) - In a deal that makes both companies look good, Salesforce.com announced that Omniture, one of the leaders in online Web marketing analytics, will be the newest service to join AppExchange. AppExchange is theSalesforce.com platform that allows third-party ISVs to integrate their applications with Salesfo...
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Congress returns to a mountain of work and a political season that's heating up. A guide.
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AP - A political ally of President Alvaro Uribe is under investigation for allegedly doing business with illegal right-wing militias.
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A federal grand jury filed more charges Wednesday against the city's former treasurer and a top mayoral fund-raiser in a broad corruption probe that involved FBI wiretapping
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Injured Washington Wizards forward Antawn Jamison says he is trying to shake off the rust as he prepares for his much anticipated return to the team.
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AP - Fighters loyal to a dissident warlord attacked government forces in an eastern town, forcing more than 10,000 people to flee amid automatic weapons fire, military and U.N. officials said.
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Keep yourself from making this costly, foolish mistake.
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Dell said it will buy MessageOne, which was co-founded by Michael Dell’s brother, for $155 million as it aims to compete with Microsoft and Google.
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BRUSSELS (Reuters) - The European Commission will give credit card company MasterCard six months to reconfigure the fee it sets for processing transactions or face daily fines, an industry source said on Wednesday.
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British Prime Minister Tony Blair offered Wednesday to host a one-day Mideast conference in March to help rehabilitate the battered Palestinian Authority, encourage political changes and help revive peace talks, stalled by four years of violence.
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As the nation's union leaders gather in Washington, the president of the A.F.L.-C.I.O.'s largest union is hinting it might pull out of the federation.
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AP - The last time the Boston Red Sox visited Yankee Stadium, Derek Jeter was hurtling headfirst into the stands, Nomar Garciaparra was sulking in the dugout and New York was pulling away in the AL East. A lot has changed since then.
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Bowing to customer demand, Mercedes is going with the hybrid flow, vowing no future Mercedes without a hybrid option, according to DaimlerChrysler's chairman. In Autopia.
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Playboy teams up with Macao Studio City to make the bunny pay.
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Jeff Kent threw his bat to the side and pumped his right fist as soon as the ball took flight, certain he was going to make a long-awaited trot around the bases.
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Two Hollywood executives who formerly ran network entertainment divisions have created a company to produce entertainment for TV, films and the Internet.
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Distinctions between local economies are being overridden by a mortgage market that has made it more difficult for many would-be home-buyers to obtain financing.
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Blog: Add carbon dioxide, water, heat--and you could someday serve cars, Sandia National Laboratories says.
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"Oh, gosh. You know, I'm tempted to answer that question rather fliply."
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AP - Kobe Bryant scored 48 points and capped his season-best offensive outburst by swishing an 18-footer with 4.3 seconds left in overtime to help the Los Angeles Lakers beat the Seattle SuperSonics 123-121 on Monday night.
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Talal El Karkouri's first goal for Charlton ensured the club's best start to the Premiership to date, though the statistic may reflect favourably on
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By Mary Ann Milbourn, The Orange County Register, Calif. Dec. 18--NetGuru Inc., the Yorba Linda technology and services company, said it has completed its reverse merger with BPO Management Services, Inc.
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In Rod Thorn's job, sometimes you pick up the phone and the wildest thing happens: They're listening. Vince Carter? Originally, the possibility seemed unreasonable to the Nets' president.
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The Department of Justice has subpoenaed Advanced Micro Devices Inc. and Nvidia Corp. as part of a probe of antitrust violations.
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Cisco Systems' collaboration with Microsoft to target the SMB market is starting to bear fruit as the networking vendor Monday launched a new application that integrates Microsoft CRM with its VoIP platform.
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RABAT, Morocco -- Morocco began counting votes late Friday after a record low turnout in parliamentary elections that were expected to show gains for an Islamic party pushing an anti-corruption message.
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NEW YORK (Reuters) - Stocks declined on Monday, as record crude oil prices triggered fresh worry that energy costs will erode corporate profits and consumer demand.
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AP - The fossil of what may be one of the earliest baby birds has been found in northeast China.
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Interim Mystics coach Wayne "Tree" Rollins has expressed taking on the head coaching duties on a permanent basis, but he continues to wait while team officials discuss the situation.
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In the agreement that will conclude the bankruptcy case of International Place developer Donald J. Chiofaro, he kept a small piece of the signature granite office towers he built in 1987 and 1993.
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Mets catcher Paul Lo Duca is hoping his filly, Grace Anatomy, can do in Saturday’s $2 million Juvenile Fillies what his team could not during the season: get the job done in the stretch.
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NEW YORK (Reuters) - Stock investors will look to earnings reports from retailers Federated Department Stores Inc. and Target Corp. next week as well as new soundings on consumer sentiment as they to try to get a handle on the state of the U.S. economy.
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Blog: An informal survey of AT&T stores across the country suggests each store had no more than 100 iPhones prior to launch--many with far less--while Apple stores had plenty.
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You can be a bit safer on the Internet using OpenDNS rather than the DNS servers from your ISP.
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NEW YORK (Reuters) - Stocks closed lower on Wednesday, after reports showed a deepening housing slump spreading into the job market and slowing consumer spending.
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NEW YORK -- The corporate pension crisis seems to be going from bad to worse. First, companies struggled to come up with the money to cover their benefit obligations, and now they want to ditch their plans altogether.
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Infineon Technologies AG has agreed to plead guilty and to pay a $160 million fine for participating in an international conspiracy to fix prices in the DRAM market, the US Department of Justice (DOJ) said today.
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In a response to EU privacy complaints, Google will make use data anonymous after 18 months, may redesign cookies.
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ATHENS (Reuters) - In one of the most bizarre episodes to erupt at the Athens Olympics, the Australian women's eight rowing crew were reprimanded on Tuesday for laying in to "Lay Down Sally."
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No contract has been signed and no announcement is expected for at least a week, but Dean Goldfine appears to be tennis star Andy Roddick's first choice to replace Brad Gilbert as his coach.
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The popularity of the iPhone is defying Apple’s attempt to slowly introduce it in new markets.
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ST. LOUIS · The Rams desperately needed a win and played like it. The Eagles desperately wanted to stay healthy and played like it.
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NAIROBI (Reuters) - Sudan's government and southern rebels committed themselves Friday to ending Africa's longest civil war by Dec. 31, signing a pledge in front of 15 U.N. Security Council ambassadors at an extraordinary meeting.
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Best practices for search engine optimization are constantly evolving, and are starting to look more like conventional business plans.
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MANILA The action film star Fernando Poe Jr., who lost to President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo in the election in May, remained in a coma Monday after suffering a stroke while dining and drinking with friends.
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VANCOUVER (CP) - A World Trade Organization ruling gives Canada needed clout to recover more than $3 billion in duties destined for US lumber producers, a Canadian lumber lobby says.
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North Korea says it sees no reason to join a working-level meeting with the United States to prepare for further six-party talks on the communist state's nuclear weapons development.
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AP - Kasey Kahne has been on the Chase for the championship bubble before — twice, actually — and failed to race his way into NASCAR's title-crowning format both times.
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Letter: More skills should equal more pay.
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Farmers in South Asia and southern Africa are at particular risk of growing food shortages due to climate change in just 20 years, a new study says.
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Upset with marks given to American Mary Sanders in qualifying yesterday, the US team filed an inquiry with the International Gymnastics Federation seeking a review of her hoop routine.
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By Sarah Jane Tribble and Matt Marshall, San Jose Mercury News, Calif. Jun. 11--Ensconced in the plush Hotel Valencia at Santana Row last week, Ericcson's CEO and President Carl-Henric Svanberg joked during an early morning meeting that Americans get up far too early to work out.
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BARCELONA (Reuters) - Sony Ericsson and Microsoft will cooperate in making smartphones, with the first Sony Ericsson handset based on the Windows Mobile operating system on sale by the end of the year.
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The US Financial Accounting Standards Board approved a rule that will force companies to treat employee stock options as an expense and delayed its implementation until next June.
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A Russian court throws out a case against a headteacher accused of using pirated Microsoft software.
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A compromise deal to save the next European Commission was today rejected by European parliament leaders who want an anti-gay member of the new team axed.
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Houston-based Dynegy Inc. has agreed to buy ExRes SHC Inc., the parent company of Sithe Energies and Sithe Independence LP, from Chicago-based Exelon Corp.
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General Motors Corp. (GM.N: Quote, Profile, Research) said on Friday it may not dump Stelco Inc. (STEa.TO: Quote, Profile, Research) as a supplier even though Canada's
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AP - Four decades after U.S. warplanes plastered it with bombs, a remote corner of the old Ho Chi Minh Trail in Cambodia is making a comeback as a treasure trove of endangered wildlife.
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Caesars Entertainment Inc. on Thursday posted a rise in third-quarter profit as Las Vegas hotels filled up and Atlantic City properties squeaked out a profit that was unexpected by the company.
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Stocks were mixed Friday as the government's gross domestic product report renewed concerns that high energy prices and a lack of jobs might hold back economic growth, and investors showed reluctance to make big commitments ahead of next week's
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AP - German authorities concede only luck prevented terrorists from blowing up two trains last month — an admission that has set off a push for stronger security measures, including more video cameras, a new anti-terrorism database and even armed marshals.
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FERNANDO MORIENTES last night declared his willingness to join Liverpool in the transfer window providing the Anfield club can strike a deal with Real Madrid.
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Brewers reliever Seth McClung is suspended for three games and Manager Ned Yost for one after hitting St. Louis' Albert Pujols.
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With the recent admission by Matt Cutts that Google is using the Adobe/Macromedia Search Engine SDK technology to pull text from Flash files, new modes of SEO for Flash can be explored.
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By Kat Zeman kzeman@@dailyherald.com Houston ... we're landing in Itasca. A brand new NASA space exhibit featuring a moon rock from the Apollo 17 lunar mission will make a stop at next month's Itasca Fest.
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There has not been a postseason baseball game in the District of Columbia in 74 years. So for Washington fans, tormenting the Mets is a transient thrill.
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AP - The Colorado Rockies sold out all three World Series games at Coors Field on Tuesday, one day after their first attempt collapsed in a computer-system crash blamed on people trying to fool the system to hoard tickets.
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PRAIA DA LUZ, Portugal (Reuters) - The parents of missing four-year-old Madeleine McCann will meet Portuguese police on Thursday after authorities received partial results of evidence tested in Britain, police said.
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SARATOGA SPRINGS, N.Y. -- Birdstone did it once, winning the Belmont Stakes, but he had to do it again to prove his class, and he accomplished the mission by capturing the 135th running of the $1 million Travers Stakes at Saratoga yesterday. Now, the retired Smarty Jones, defeated by Birdstone in the Belmont, has compa...
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Israel's national airline is to fit aircraft with the world's first anti-missile system for passenger flights, reports say.
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The earliest stars may hold clues to the nature of the Universe's mysterious dark matter, simulations suggest.
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WASHINGTON -- The hunt for biological, chemical, and nuclear weapons in Iraq has come to an end nearly two years after President Bush ordered US troops to disarm Saddam Hussein. The top CIA weapons hunter is home, and analysts are back at Langley, Va.
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AMSTERDAM, Netherlands -- The Dutch telecommunications watchdog has issued its first fines under the nation's ban on spam. The highest single fine - for $61,000 - went to a person involved with four spam e
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Wheeling-Pittsburgh Steel and Severstal North America have agreed to terms on a joint-venture effort to rebuild and operate a cokemaking operation at Follansbee, WV.
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TORONTO, Sept. 1 -- When the radio crackled with news that two California murder suspects were racing toward the U.S. border in January, Canadian border guards quickly cleared passenger cars from their posts and then fled.
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Federal regulators on Tuesday allowed U.S. mortgage finance giants Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac to buy larger individual mortgages next year following a jump in home prices, a move that would lower borrowing costs for buyers of more expensive homes.
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AP - With two black coaches in the Super Bowl for the first time, the historic accomplishment presents a welcome dilemma for many black fans: For whom to root?
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India's main opposition party rejects claims that its members took part in the 2002 riots in Gujarat.
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This remote user's laptop starts going bad, so an IT pilot fish at the main office tells him to send it in to be fixed. And a few days later, something arrives on her desk.
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AP - Michael Beasley had 40 points and 17 rebounds for his 21st double-double to lead No. 18 Kansas State to a 100-63 victory over Missouri on Saturday.
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Carlos Delgado wanted to play for a contender, and the Florida Marlins look like one now.
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There's something very strange about the Royals and Tigers on Thursday afternoons. Baseball scores start looking more like football scores.
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SOUTHAMPTON : Newcastle United gave new manager Graeme Souness a winning Premiership start with a 2-1 win at Southampton. It was Newcastle's third successive win but first in the league for Souness since taking over from Sir Bobby Robson.
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AFP - Reigning champions England were left contemplating the prospect of failing to reach the knockout stages of this year's World Cup after a record-breaking 36-0 defeat against South Africa here at the Stade de France.
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It started early. Again. And all the Red Sox and their fans could do was wonder how bad it would be this time and if the outburst would subside enough to enable the Red Sox to make some noise in the American League Championship Series.
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RAMALLAH, West Bank (Reuters) - Hamas Islamic militants scored significant successes in Palestinian municipal elections, the first contested by the group sworn to destroying Israel, initial results showed on Friday.
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The Swiss-based Phonak team said Wednesday it is contesting the International Cycling Union's decision to refuse it a racing licence amid a doping scandal.
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BANGALORE: A cry of delight from Michael Kasprowicz reverberated over the roar of the crowd. It wasn't the last wicket - Harbhajan Singh's - but Rahul Dravid's.
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A fire at a hotel in the southern Chilean town of Punta Arenas kills 10 foreign tourists, officials say.
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A bankruptcy judge gave US Airways Group Inc. permission yesterday to tap a government loan to fund daily operations -- a move expected to allow
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Tokyo stocks opened slightly lower Monday as Sony and stock brokerage Nikko Cordial fell. The US dollar was up against the Japanese yen.
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