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Financial regulators on Thursday asked prosecutors to investigate allegations that UFJ Holdings Inc.'s banking unit illegally obstructed recent inspections by reporting misleading information about its nonperforming loans. | 0World |
Mike Cameron, the former Gold Glove center fielder who lost his position when the Mets signed Carlos Beltran, told team officials that he did not want to be traded. | 1Sports |
AFP - The United Nations elected five new members of the UN Security Council for two-year terms starting on January 1 -- Argentina, Denmark, Greece, Japan and Tanzania. | 0World |
Acton-Boxboro, which sat atop the Globe's Top 20 standings all season, solidified that spot and capped a 13-0 season with a dominating 28-6 win over No. 6 Chelmsford in the Division 2 Super Bowl.Couple that with Everett's loss to Brockton in the Division 1 game, and there is no debate: A-B is No. 1. The Super Bowl was ... | 1Sports |
Arsenal manager Arsene Wenger refused to panic after his side were pegged back to a 1-1 draw by Panathinaikos in the Champions League. | 1Sports |
NEW YORK -- Wall Street's fourth-quarter rally gave stock mutual funds a solid performance for 2004, with small-cap equity funds and real estate funds scoring some of the biggest returns. Large-cap growth equities and technology-focused funds had the slimmest gains. | 2Business |
The row between South African President Thabo Mbeki and Archbishop Desmond Tutu worsens. | 0World |
Samarra - An uneasy calm reigned over this former Sunni militant stronghold on Sunday as United States and Iraqi forces conducted mopping-up operations after two days of fierce fighting. | 0World |
WASHINGTON: Bobby Fischer's plan to renounce his US citizenship and wed a Japanese chess official would not save him from prosecution, the US State Department said yesterday. | 0World |
SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Hewlett-Packard Co. HPQ.N and Intel Corp. INTC.O on Wednesday ended their 10-year partnership to co-develop the Itanium chip for server computers, following disappointing sales of the product. | 2Business |
By Richard Chin, Pioneer Press, St. Paul, Minn. Feb. 4--I, Richard Chin, am a newspaper reporter and the writer of this article. | 3Sci/Tech |
BAGHDAD, Iraq -- Two US Army helicopters crashed in Baghdad on Saturday, killing two soldiers, as the military reported that four other American troops had died in car bombings elsewhere in Iraq. | 0World |
AP - Former President Clinton defends his administration's attempt to reshape the nation's health care system in a new book, saying the effort "was killed by politics, not the plan's particulars." | 0World |
OPEC will cut back on oil production early next year in a bid to stave off a further decline in the world price, Kuwait's oil minister said yesterday. | 2Business |
RIO DE JANEIRO (Reuters) - At least 11 people were killed and 63 injured when a train packed with homeward-bound commuters rammed into another train on the outskirts of Rio de Janeiro on Thursday. | 0World |
Reuters - Mobile phone users around the world
will spend $1 billion a year on pornography sent to their
handsets by 2008, which may boost the wireless services sector
much as it fueled growth in the fixed-line Internet, a market
research firm said. | 3Sci/Tech |
Some 100 former soldiers who helped lead a revolt against ousted Haitian President Jean-Bertrand Aristide seized his abandoned residence on Wednesday and said they would make it their headquarters. | 0World |
The number of mortgages approved rose to 120,000 in July, the highest since the start of 2006. | 2Business |
BEIJING - A diplomat who visited the site of a huge explosion in North Korea said Friday he saw no evidence it was caused by a nuclear test, and South Korean officials said mushroom-shaped plume thought to be from the blast may have instead been a natural cloud formation. The extremely secretive North allowed diplom... | 0World |
All three of the newly promoted sides are still searching for a first win of the season after a day of predictable results gave the Premiership table an all too familiar look. | 1Sports |
By John Stamper, The Lexington Herald-Leader, Ky. Feb. | 3Sci/Tech |
Rookie Nick Swisher singled home the go-ahead run in the eighth inning, and the A's defeated the playoff-bound Anaheim Angels 3-2 on Sunday. | 1Sports |
AP - Tracy McGrady, Kobe Bryant, Jermaine O'Neal and four other NBA players have promised to donate $1,000 for every point they score in a game later this week to help victims of the Indian Ocean tsunami. | 1Sports |
AP - Seven-footer Greg Oden gets all the attention for No. 3 Ohio State. Maybe the shortest Buckeye deserves some of the focus. | 1Sports |
President George W. Bush signs into law a bill designed to improve fuel economy and reduce US demand for oil. | 2Business |
SEOUL (Reuters) - South Korea's constitutional court on Thursday ruled that a special counsel investigation into fraud allegations against President-elect Lee Myung-bak could go ahead, even though part of the process was unconstitutional. | 0World |
Airbus unveils the world's largest passenger plane | 2Business |
Kingston has introduced two bundle kits that combine a microSD card with a Mac and PC-compatible USB reader. | 3Sci/Tech |
NEW YORK (Reuters) - NYSE Euronext said on Thursday it agreed to acquire the American Stock Exchange for $260 million in stock to boost its business in options, exchange traded funds and other products. | 2Business |
AP - Michael Bush sat up on the stretcher and waved to the Papa John's Stadium crowd. He didn't anticipate having to say goodbye so soon. | 1Sports |
London, England (Sports Network) - In Sunday's only Premiership match, Bolton Wanderers moved back into the league's fourth position after beating Newcastle United 2-1. | 1Sports |
Reuters - Hotel workers in Washington D.C.,
San Francisco and Los Angeles on Sunday held out the threat of
a strike, but have told management they will resume contract
talks, a D.C. union official said. | 2Business |
ATLANTA -- Georgia football great Herschel Walker has multiple personalities _ a revelation in an upcoming book that surprises the man who coached the 1982 Heisman Trophy winner. | 1Sports |
PORTLAND, Ore., (Sports Network) - Portland Trail Blazers forward Qyntel Woods was suspended without pay pending the club's investigation regarding allegations by Multnomah County for dog abandonment and by Clackamas County for dog fighting. | 1Sports |
AP - Internet service provider Earthlink Inc. on Monday named the former leader of a voice and data services company known for his willingness to cut loose unprofitable projects as its new chief executive. | 3Sci/Tech |
Google Planning To Index Entire Libraries
For a long time there have been rumors going around about Project Ocean, a project by Google to index all the pre-1923 content in the Stanford Library. (I'd call it a little stronger than a rumor since it was in the New York Times, but ... | 3Sci/Tech |
By Christina Vance, The Fresno Bee, Calif. Feb. 7--Unhappy with the speed of dial-up Internet access at home? Try being a Fresno Unified student. Many classroom Web connections move at a maddeningly slow pace in California's fourth-largest school district. | 3Sci/Tech |
The U.S. and the Iraqi government struggle
to contain the truculent cleric Muqtada al-Sadr | 0World |
LOS ANGELES - With Microsoft pulling out the stops to make computers part of home entertainment, Will Poole was a natural choice to lead the business producing PC versions of Windows. | 3Sci/Tech |
AP - Pete Rose thinks Mark McGwire should be baseball's Hall of Fame, and hasn't given up hope that he'll get there someday, too. | 1Sports |
Orlando, FL (Sports Network) - LSU head coach Nick Saban announced on Saturday night that he will become the new head coach of the Miami Dolphins beginning in the 2005 season. | 1Sports |
Battle for the wrapping paper begins
In the run-up to the Christmas season, Sony, Microsoft and Nintendo will all be eagerly analysing sales figures in an attempt to declare their own console champion of champions. Microsoft has already made the first move and declared that it's in the best position to win the race to ... | 3Sci/Tech |
Tom Lehman remembers watching last year's Ryder Cup on television, and feeling like he had tuned into a horror show. | 1Sports |
United Airlines management says it is "substantially accelerating" its restructuring plans to add lucrative international routes, strengthen its hubs, and cut back on other domestic service. | 2Business |
IBM (Quote, Chart) secured the top spot in the rankings for world's fastest supercomputer as Blue Gene/L ran at a sustained speed of 36. | 2Business |
Musician Brian Eno, who has been turning ideas into visionary music for decades, is looking to create software that will write song lyrics. | 3Sci/Tech |
SANTIAGO, Dominican Republic -- Baseball union head Donald Fehr has heard rumors about the possibility U.S. authorities could deny or restrict work visas for foreign players mentioned in reports of use of performance-enhancing drugs. | 1Sports |
The bug fixes kept coming Monday, as Apple shipped critical security updates for its Mac OS X operating system. | 3Sci/Tech |
Silicon Valley and Manhattan law firms descended on Boston in December, throwing money at the hotshot talent fleeing the country's premier high-technology law firm, Testa, Hurwitz & Thibeault, as it was unraveling. | 2Business |
WASHINGTON -- The IRS and private tax preparers have agreed that a free electronic filing program will be offered for 2006 tax returns without solicitations for refund loans that sometimes carry high interest charges and fees, the agency said yesterday. | 2Business |
Fannie Mae, the US biggest government-ruled mortgage lender, faces formal investigation conducted by the US Justice Department of possible accounting fraud. | 2Business |
The FBI planted spyware on a 15-year-old boy's computer in Washington state to help finger him as the person responsible for a number of bomb threats e-mailed to his high school earlier this year. | 3Sci/Tech |
AP - Mario Moore shot 4-of-5 from 3-point range and finished with 16 points to help lead Vanderbilt to a 70-56 upset of No. 19 Alabama on Wednesday night. | 1Sports |
NEW YORK (Kyodo) Karaoke inventor Daisuke Inoue was awarded the humorous Ig Nobel peace prize in a Thursday ceremony at Harvard University for "providing an entirely new way for people to learn to tolerate each other. | 3Sci/Tech |
PalmOne Inc. has licensed technology from Microsoft Corp. to make its devices work directly with Microsoft's Exchange e-mail server, the companies said Tuesday. | 3Sci/Tech |
The third round of peace talks aimedat ending a 22-month-old crisis in Sudan's troubled Darfur region has been suspended after the rebels accused government forces of continuing attacking them. | 0World |
BRIGHTON, England (Reuters) - Tony Blair offered his Labour party on Tuesday a partial apology for waging war in Iraq -- a desperate attempt to pull supporters back behind him ahead of an election next year. | 0World |
His final season as a modestly talented tight end coincided with Chuck Noll's last hurrah on the sideline, and it was probably during that 1991 campaign with the Pittsburgh | 1Sports |
Fragmentation is just one of our enemies
The UK government's chief scientific advisor painted a depressing picture of an ever-evolving terror threat that had to be be met with an ever agile investment in science and technology for security.⊠| 3Sci/Tech |
Also: Searching passengers' faces for subtle cues to terror. Read these stories and more from around the Web on News.com Extra. | 3Sci/Tech |
The wall separating church and economics is being breached as some academics turn to studying the effect of religion on economies. | 2Business |
PARIS (Reuters) - The United States said on Tuesday it may soon take legal action in a trade row over government help for Airbus and Boeing, particularly as the European aircraft maker was seeking support for a new project. Washington and Brussels have so far resisted launching legal action at the World Trade Orga... | 2Business |
Americans Hank Kuehne, Chad Campbell, Zach Johnson and Chris Riley beat a foursome of international players on the first playoff hole Tuesday in the inaugural Tommy Bahama Challenge. | 1Sports |
AP - The nation's fertility clinics vary widely when it comes to how they perform one of the most delicate aspects of their jobs: disposing of unused frozen human embryos that were created to help infertile women become pregnant. | 3Sci/Tech |
Peyton Manning threw for 393 yards and five first-half touchdowns and the Indianapolis Colts beat the Green Bay Packers 45-31 in a wild, high-scoring game on Sunday. | 1Sports |
ATHENS, Greece - The United States shook off early shooting woes and sloppy play to claim its third straight Olympic gold medal Saturday, a 74-63 victory over Australia that was ugly but immensely satisfying for the Americans. They did it by turning up the defense, crashing the boards harder in the second half and, mos... | 0World |
OPEC, the oil producers' cartel, agreed yesterday to clamp down on its excess production, which has seen crude prices tumble by one-quarter in just six weeks. | 2Business |
NEW YORK (Reuters) - United Parcel Service Inc. UPS.N said on Thursday its quarterly profit rose but missed expectations as shortfalls in its U.S. package business and rising fuel prices offset strength internationally. | 2Business |
Prognosticators pegged Virginia Tech as being among the worst teams in the ACC but coach Seth Greenberg has guided the surprising Hokies to fifth place. | 1Sports |
Previously undiscovered lakes under Antarctica may help improve our understanding of the interaction between global warming and the melting icepack. Plus: New climate accord sought. By the Associated Press. | 2Business |
AP - THE PROBLEM: Social Security faces a $3.7 trillion shortfall over 75 years. | 0World |
The U.S. trade deficit, propelled by a record foreign oil bill, surged to $54 billion in August, the second highest level in history. | 2Business |
Beagle 3 to seek Martian fossils in lunar caverns
A joint working group set up by the British government and US space agency NASA has recommended that the two countries cooperate on a "UK-led" unmanned moon mission.⊠| 3Sci/Tech |
AFP - Activists, claiming a groundswell of anti-war sentiment not seen since the US-led invasion of Iraq, have staged a mass protest against the conflict in Lebanon and demanded a ceasefire. | 0World |
Industry observers say all the talks and recent airline restructurings have set the stage for big changes in the business next year | 2Business |
Foreign direct investment inflows to India leapt by almost 70 per cent in the first six months of the year but are still running at only a tenth the volume of China. | 2Business |
It's back to the future and back to the dealer for 10 million GM cars. | 2Business |
AP - Last-minute shopping recommendations from consumer finance experts: | 2Business |
TOKYO (Reuters) - Japan has abandoned whale hunting in the Antarctic for this season after its main whaling ship was crippled by a fire two weeks ago, the Fisheries Agency said on Wednesday. | 0World |
Investors pulled back from shares of major air carriers Friday as concerns loomed that US Airways Group Inc. and Delta Air Lines Inc. | 2Business |
Outdoor clothing company Hawkshead goes into administration amid problems with financing and its database. | 2Business |
AFP - World temperatures in January were the highest ever recorded for that month of the year, US government scientists said. | 3Sci/Tech |
Google Checkout & Customer Ownership
Brian Smith at ComparisonEngines has an interesting post (citing research from Piper Jaffray’s Safa Rashtchy) on retailer fear surrounding Google’s control of customer data and the customer relationship. (Eric Schmidt in his remarks at SES gave an unsatisfying implied “trust us” res... | 3Sci/Tech |
A genetic test which may improve accurate diagnosis of prostate cancer is launched in the UK. | 3Sci/Tech |
Two years ago, the Chicago White Sox were World Series champions. Three days ago, general manager Kenny Williams flew to Cleveland unexpectedly to apologize for the team's poor play. | 1Sports |
Ryder Cup captain Bernhard Langer led the praise for his "tremendous" Europe team after their crushing 18œ-9œ defeat of the USA at Oakland Hills. | 1Sports |
The Capitals surrender three power-play goals in the first period and a short-handed one in the second to hand the Canadiens a 5-3 victory. | 1Sports |
Former Wimbledon and US Open winner Lleyton Hewitt cruised to a 6-1, 6-4 victory over Michael Llodra on Thursday to advance to the quarterfinals of the TD Waterhouse Cup. | 1Sports |
The prime ministers of Britain and Ireland admitted today that they had failed so far to restore power-sharing government between Catholics and Protestants | 0World |
Open-source mobile e-mail provider Funambol is working with advertising company Amobee to give network operators a way to offer free e-mail services to users. The new mobile offering, which Funambol plans to announce on Tuesday and demonstrate in Barcelona next week at the Mobile World Congress, will display banner ads... | 3Sci/Tech |
If you're a Silicon Valley insider, expect to laugh mightily at this send up of Northern California's movers and shakers. Others might not get the joke. | 3Sci/Tech |
AP - Lawmakers are questioning whether a French bank failed to comply with U.S. money-laundering laws, possibly helping Saddam Hussein manipulate the $60 billion U.N. oil-for-food program. The bank denies any wrongdoing. | 0World |
Russian investigators refuse to rule out sabotage after two airliners crash minutes apart, killing 89 people. | 0World |
Mutual fund fees may look small, but they can eat much of your earnings. | 2Business |
(November 12, 2004) - SYRACUSE â-t took just 50 seconds to show how overmatched the Northern Colorado basketball team would be in Thursday night's 104-54 loss to Syracuse University. | 1Sports |
LAS VEGAS (Reuters) - James Blake was controversially given a place in the Las Vegas Open quarter-finals on Thursday after the ATP reversed a quirk in the rules of its new round-robin format that had seen him ousted in bizarre fashion. | 1Sports |
SOUTH Korea 's Samsung Electronics, the world's largest memory chipmaker, is to invest $US24 billion ($31 billion) in new chip production lines over the next six years. | 2Business |
ORLANDO, Fla. (Sports Network) - Grant Hill scored a season-high 39 points and Steve Francis hit a pair of clutch shots down the stretch to lead the Orlando Magic over the Los Angeles Clippers, 99-94, at TD Waterhouse Center. | 1Sports |
Kyle Boller faces mounting criticism after an ineffective game in Washington two weeks ago. With several offensive players out, Boller needs to play better vs. the Bills. | 1Sports |
It's not too early to start thinking about how to ensure your television won't go dark when analog broadcasts shut down in 2009. Photos: Converting from analog to digital TV | 3Sci/Tech |
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