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MOUNT KISCO, N.Y. - Christopher Reeve, the chiseled, strapping "Superman" of celluloid who became another kind of hero as a force for spinal cord research after a devastating horse-riding accident, has died at 52... | 0World |
President Hamid Karzai clinched victory in Afghanistan's historic presidential poll as his main rival conceded defeat even before election workers began counting the final votes on Monday. | 0World |
FoxFaith, a new division of 20th Century Fox, will release up to a dozen religious-oriented films each year. | 2Business |
AP - Russia warned the West on Tuesday against recognizing a unilateral declaration of independence by Kosovo, saying it could set off a chain reaction of secessionist movements in Europe and around the world. | 0World |
Now there's something else for airline passengers to worry about -- the safety of their drinking water. New tests show nearly one of out every eight passenger airliners flying in the United States has drinking | 3Sci/Tech |
AFP - The militant environmental group Sea Shepherd said Monday that it had located the Japanese whaling fleet near Antarctica and threatened to ram them if they resumed slaughtering the giant sea creatures. | 3Sci/Tech |
Sunday was the deadline for Internet radio stations to pay higher fees set by a federal agency, but the debate over when and how much they will pay has not been decided. | 2Business |
Investor's Business Daily - MSCI's main world stock index rose almost 1% as credit concerns eased and investors returned to buying riskier assets. Stocks in Europe and Japan led the index higher. Chinese stocks hit yet another record high. The index is 6.5% above a week ago but remains 7% below its record high in July,... | 2Business |
Make sure the IRS won't hit you where it hurts come April. | 2Business |
Growth in Chinese industrial output picked up last month, boosted by strong export demand, figures show. | 2Business |
AFP - In beating Boca Juniors 4-2 in the Club World Cup final in Toyko on Sunday, AC Milan set a new record of international titles. | 1Sports |
AP - Germany's biggest soccer scandal in more than 30 years deepened Friday when four people were arrested and a newspaper reported that a referee told prosecutors he was paid more than $65,000 to fix games. | 1Sports |
UNITED NATIONS -- The Bush administration responded calmly yesterday to North Korean statements it has turned the plutonium from 8,000 spent nuclear fuel rods into nuclear weapons. | 0World |
DUBLIN: Ireland's all-time leading scorer Robbie Keane struck the only goal in a 1-0 victory over Croatia in an international soccer friendly on Wednesday. | 1Sports |
JACKSONVILLE, Florida (Reuters) - Phil Mickelson was poised to win his first PGA Tour title since last year's U.S. Masters as he maintained a four-stroke lead on South Korea's Kevin Na with nine holes to play at the Phoenix Open Sunday. | 1Sports |
By recreating the influenza virus that killed up to 50 million people in 1918-19, researchers may have identified the gene that turned it into one of the most lethal in human history. | 3Sci/Tech |
Johan Santana has 200 strikeouts, the most for a Twins pitcher since Bert Blyleven's 215 in 1986. Mike Jackson of the White Sox made his 1,002d appearance, tying Goose Gossage for eighth on the career list. Chicago's Jose Contreras has walked 16 in his last three starts. Jeremy Bonderman's 14 strikeouts were the most b... | 1Sports |
Kevin Pietersen smashes 77 and Dimitri Mascarenhas takes 3-18 as England beat Zimbabwe by 50 runs in the World Twenty20. | 0World |
Saudi Arabia's de facto ruler, Crown Prince Abdullah, has vowed the top oil producer would crush al Qaeda militants and called on its citizens to stand united against all threats. | 0World |
NEW YORK (Reuters) - The Buffalo Bills have signed free-agent safety Bryan Scott, the team said on Wednesday. | 1Sports |
Juicy results
Research in Motion - the company behind the BlackBerry emailer - turned over $1.08bn in the first quarter ended 2 June 2007, an increase of 76.5 per cent on the same quarter of last year.⊠| 3Sci/Tech |
Reuters - Japan's Princess Kiko gave birth on
Wednesday to a baby boy, the first imperial male heir to be
born in more than four decades and the answer to the prayers of
conservatives keen to keep women off the ancient throne. | 0World |
MIAMI (Reuters) - Buffalo Bills tight-end Kevin Everett, who doctors feared would be paralyzed for life, has taken his first steps and said he felt fortunate to be alive. | 1Sports |
Apple boss Steve Jobs says outside developers will now be allowed to make add-on software for the iPhone. | 3Sci/Tech |
LONDON (Reuters) - UK brokerage Cazenove effectively gave up 181 years of independence on Friday when it sealed a joint venture with J.P. Morgan Chase & Co., designed to lift the U.S. bank's UK presence and give Cazenove a broader reach. | 2Business |
The practice was already scheduled. The long practice was not. But after watching the atrocity in Chicago Monday night, Doc Rivers made the Celtics work a little longer than planned yesterday. The coach conceded it may even backfire. | 1Sports |
LOS ANGELES (Ticker) -- Despite recovering from a terrible first quarter, the Los Angeles Clippers could not overcome the Memphis Grizzlies ' hot 3-point shooting. | 1Sports |
AP - A former rebel leader who helped topple Haiti's first freely elected president criticized its newest one, accusing President Rene Preval's government of being soft on armed gangs and failing to stem a bloody tide of street violence. | 0World |
BOSTONâ With two outs in the bottom of the ninth inning Tuesday and the Red Sox uncertain whether theyâd enjoy a dramatic come-from-behind victory or endure a crushing defeat, Doug Mirabelli glanced at the teammate sitting next to him on a water cooler | 1Sports |
AP - Volkswagen resumed crucial wage talks with its workers Tuesday, with the two sides haggling over the automaker's push for a two-year wage freeze in return for a no-layoff pledge. | 0World |
Data mining is an inescapable fact of life in the digital age. These practices have significant social implications that need to be considered by everyone in a family, from kids, to parents, to seniors. | 3Sci/Tech |
Billionaire Mark Cuban isn't content with owning the Dallas Mavericks and running a high-definition TV broadcasting company... | 3Sci/Tech |
AP - The U.S. Olympic Committee banned track coach Trevor Graham from its training centers and training sites Thursday. | 1Sports |
Only contrarians need apply. | 2Business |
Big brother is moving into the e-mail business. But could it be a good thing? | 2Business |
The continued spread of the Ebola virus could wipe out the species, researchers are reporting today. | 0World |
Tobacco companies are spending more than ever to market cigarettes, but sales still are falling, according to a study released Friday. | 2Business |
The case, along with the detention of a Chinese researcher for The New York Times, has prompted international concern about ChinaÂs crackdown on press freedom. | 2Business |
Kenyan police shoot to disperse crowds during a major crackdown on followers of the banned Mungiki sect. | 0World |
BERLIN (Reuters) - The world's major powers will try Tuesday to overcome differences over imposing more sanctions on Iran and to keep up pressure on the Tehran leadership to curb its nuclear program. | 0World |
NEW YORK - Investors wary of an uninspiring employment report and Intel Corp.'s weak profit outlook sent stocks lower Friday. The major indexes were poised to end the week mixed, with tech stocks taking the brunt of investor discontent... | 0World |
Melvyn I. Weiss is expected to be indicted on Thursday in connection with a scheme in which his firm is said to have paid kickbacks to people to serve as named plaintiffs in class-action lawsuits. | 2Business |
Reuters - The Arizona Diamondbacks and
first baseman/outfielder Shawn Green have agreed to a
three-year, $30 million contract that will clear the way for
Green to be dealt from the Dodgers to Arizona. | 1Sports |
WPP is upbeat on the outlook for the advertising industry 2008 as it posts a rise in revenues. | 2Business |
AP - The New York Mets and St. Louis Cardinals used their offenses to show why they are the top two teams in the National League. | 1Sports |
Israeli forces carry out an incursion into the Gaza Strip, seizing more than 80 Palestinians and killing four. | 0World |
Colin Montgomerie, who has had a tough year, took a turn for the better Sunday, when he was chosen to play in his seventh Ryder Cup. | 1Sports |
SPORTS NETWORK - New York Jets running back etched his name in the NFL record books on Sunday, joining Hall of Famer Barry Sanders as the only players to reach the 1,000-yard rushing plateau in each of their first 10 seasons. | 1Sports |
South Africa posted 233/7 and led England by 94 runs at tea on the second day of the second Test in Durban on Monday. Jacques Kallis and Shaun Pollock on 51 and 11 respectively resumed the South African first innings after the lunch break in Durban. | 1Sports |
Vatican, Dec. 24 (CWNews.com) - Pope John Paul II (bio - news) is prepared to lead the Vatican celebration of Christmas, following what has become his usual schedule: an early-evening appearance from the window of his apartment, midnight Mass in St. | 0World |
Reuters - General Motors' European labor
force on Friday hailed news that the world's biggest carmaker
had decided to sell Belgian-made Opel Astras in North America
under the Saturn brand from late next year. | 0World |
AP - The United States and Australia have prevailed in an interim ruling by World Trade Organisation (WTO) in a dispute over the protection given by the European Union to its regional goods such as Champagne wine and Feta cheese, trade officials said. | 2Business |
IBM's deal with Lenovo may signal a round of industry consolidation, analysts say. | 3Sci/Tech |
Petr Cech Against some spirited Russian revolutionaries Cech stood firm, making three outstanding saves to maintain his team's control. | 1Sports |
Hong Kong (Sports Network) - Miguel Angel Jimenez fired a six-under 64 Friday to surge into the lead after the second round of the Omega Hong Kong Open. | 1Sports |
Newcastle won 4-0 at Sochaux in European soccer's UEFA Cup to advance to the round of 32, while Sporting Lisbon, Schalke and Dnipro also progressed. | 1Sports |
AP - His Detroit Pistons down five points in the third quarter, coach Flip Saunders was livid. Saunders' screaming and wild gestures several feet onto the court earned him a technical foul, but it gave the Pistons the jolt they needed to pull out a 94-89 win against the Orlando Magic on Friday night. | 1Sports |
AFP - The sixth Harry Potter book, 'Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince', written by children's author J. K. Rowling, will be published on July 16 next year, the novel's publisher revealed. | 0World |
Given the routine at airport checkpoints, it is no wonder 27,000 people signed up in Florida for the Registered Traveler program. | 3Sci/Tech |
AFP - Celtic needed an own goal to secure the 1-0 victory at home to Kilmarnock on Saturday which moved them to within a point of Rangers at the top of the Scottish Premier League. | 0World |
AP - Matt Hasselbeck never performed like this last season. Seattle's defense, slowed by injuries, didn't look so vulnerable through the first three weeks. | 1Sports |
Capital markets losses offset solid revenue growth in most businesses at the bank, which posted net income of $3.7 billion. | 2Business |
LONDON (Reuters) - Four U.S. bidders including General Electric and Danaher are vying to win control of British laboratory equipment company Whatman , the Financial Times said on Tuesday. | 2Business |
NEW YORK (Reuters) - Four of the largest newspaper
companies in the United States are teaming up to create an
online advertising sales network focused on premium advertisers
seeking a national audiences. | 3Sci/Tech |
Reuters - Condoleezza Rice was confirmed as
U.S. secretary of state on Wednesday as a large majority of
senators swept aside objections from some Democrats who said
she should be held accountable for mistakes in the Iraq war. | 0World |
Swiss voters today overwhelmingly approved a new law permitting research on stem cells, rejecting a repeal initiative by an alliance of conservative Christian, left-wing and green groups. | 0World |
Indonesian police said Saturday that four suspects in last week's bomb attack at the Australian embassy in Jakarta have been arrested. | 0World |
Microsoft has made a number of changes to its Windows Live offerings, including pushing some services out of beta and adding new features to others. | 3Sci/Tech |
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Baseball's saga over performance-enhancing drugs was set for a potentially explosive episode on Wednesday when Roger Clemens and his former trainer testify before Congress over allegations that the pitching great received injections of steroids. | 1Sports |
Reuters - Kazakh President Nursultan Nazarbayev
sacked his son-in-law, diplomat Rakhat Aliyev, on Saturday
after Aliyev challenged the Kazakh leader by declaring he
intended to run for the presidency. | 0World |
AP - European Union foreign affairs chief Javier Solana said Monday the Iraqi authorities can count on the support of the 25-nation EU after this weekend's elections highlighted the willingness to move toward a democratic Iraq. | 0World |
ANKARA (Reuters) - Foreign Minister Abdullah Gul was elected Turkey's next president on Tuesday, the first former Islamist to take the post in the secular but predominantly Muslim country's modern history. | 0World |
(Sports Network) - Despite the home team winning every game so far in this year's National League Championship Series, the Houston Astros would seem to have an edge going into Thursday night's deciding Game 7 versus the St. | 1Sports |
Install, spin three times, buy a monkey and wait
Microsoft is now letting the common rabble get its mitts on the latest beta build of Windows Vista Service Pack 1.⊠| 3Sci/Tech |
Canada's major banks begin reporting third-quarter earnings this week and analysts will be looking to see whether they can repeat the strong showing from the second quarter. | 2Business |
AP - Rebels in tsunami-battered Aceh province will not attack foreign relief workers, an insurgent commander said Monday, amid a warning of an imminent terror strike in the region and a claim by Indonesia's military that guerrillas may target the aid groups. | 0World |
He helped bring the Brooklyn Dodgers four pennants and their only World Series championship. | 1Sports |
BOSTON - After a night of steady rain at Fenway Park, the New York Yankees and Boston Red Sox hoped to get in Game 3 of the AL championship series on Saturday night. The forecast was better, with the National Weather Service calling for mostly cloudy conditions with a 50-percent chance of showers and 10-15 mph wind.... | 0World |
A nervous world learned the Greek word for thank you and repeated it endlessly at an astonishingly successful Athens Olympics that quelled fears, surprised skeptics and greatly honored the birthplace of the games. | 1Sports |
AP - Minnesota manager Ron Gardenhire still is surprised over the fuss made last year when he said a long version "God Bless America" may have affected Twins pitcher Brad Radke in Game 2 of the playoff series against the New York Yankees. | 1Sports |
BEIJING (Reuters) - In a public display of commitment to fighting the disease a day before World AIDS Day, state media reported on Tuesday that China's President Hu Jintao shook hands with patients during a visit to a hospital in the capital. | 0World |
WASHINGTON - The Energy Department said last week it has approved another emergency oil loan to a refining company to make up for crude supplies disrupted by Hurricane Ivan. | 2Business |
Forbes.com - Edward Zander always wanted to be in charge. After 25 years in high technology, including five years as a prominent second banana at Sun Microsystems, Zander got his wish. In January he became chief executive at Motorola, a fallen angel of mobile communications. It used to own the business. It doesn't anym... | 3Sci/Tech |
Google secures GreenBorder in quiet buy | 3Sci/Tech |
( InfoWorld ) - The Dow Jones Industrial Average broke a record this week, but that doesn't mean that the technology sector has recovered from its half-decade hangover after the burst of the dot-com bubble.
The Nasdaq has made gains in recent weeks and closed the third quarter up about 4 percent, compared with the seco... | 3Sci/Tech |
The 34-year-old won his fourth gold medal in Athens. Pinsent joined forces with Steve Redgrave at the age of 19 and spent much of his career in Redgrave's shadow. | 1Sports |
Iraq's Prime Minister Nouri Maliki makes an unannounced visit to Ramadi, a stronghold of the Sunni insurgency. | 0World |
AFP - Australian Prime Minister Kevin Rudd said Sunday that a planned official apology to Aborigines over the forced removal of children from their families will remove "a blight on the nation's soul." | 0World |
AP - China has decided to restrict the broadcasting of Internet videos  including those posted on video-sharing Web sites  to sites run by state-controlled companies and require providers to report questionable content to the government. | 0World |
Venezuela readies for protests as a TV station opposing President Chavez is set to be taken off air at midnight. | 0World |
In his first public appearance since reaching a one-year, $16 million deal with the Yankees, Andy Pettitte spoke to reporters for about 20 minutes on Saturday. | 1Sports |
ATA, the biggest airline at Chicago's Midway Airport, filed for bankruptcy protection Tuesday and said it will unload its Midway hub to AirTran Airways. | 2Business |
AFP - Nearly two-thirds of Japanese people support the country's whaling, which has infuriated Western countries, but enthusiasm is waning among younger people, a poll said Friday. | 3Sci/Tech |
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Front-line U.S. troops often lacked access to surveillance and intelligence data during the invasion of Iraq because of computer glitches, Technology Review magazine reported on Tuesday, citing a report by Rand Corp. | 3Sci/Tech |
Skip those large music companies that don't care about your music. Doing it yourself is easier and more affordable than ever. | 3Sci/Tech |
Bank of America Corp. (NYSE: BAC) plans to cut about 2.5 percent, or 4,500 jobs from its workforce, and it's unclear how those cuts will affect Austin employees. | 2Business |
AP - Six Democratic presidential candidates took aim at President Bush as they made their case Sunday to thousands of activists scattered across an Iowa field. | 0World |
Blog: Tobak's take on Steve Jobs' role in the stock options backdating scandal at Apple | 3Sci/Tech |
PARIS (Reuters) - A top French judge has issued arrest warrants for nine associates of Rwandan president Paul Kagame over a 1994 plane crash that killed the country's president and sparked a genocide, a judicial source said on Thursday. | 0World |
AP - Florida State's Chris Rix and West Virginia's Rasheed Marshall met at a children's hospital during a recent Gator Bowl function. They talked about getting thrust into the spotlight long ago as freshmen, Rix's California roots and their mutual respect. | 1Sports |
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