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AFP - An Indian supplier to clothing retailer Gap has been found using child labour to produce items for Gap Kids branches in Europe and the United States, the Observer newspaper reported here on Sunday. | 2Business |
Two days after a PeopleSoft Inc. board member suggested the company may be willing to sell to Oracle Corp. for the right price, an Oracle director said his firm's offer to buy its Pleasanton rival for $21 per share may not be final. | 2Business |
AP - Go to Google, search and scroll results, click and copy. When students do research online these days, many educators worry, those are often about the only steps they take. If they can avoid a trip to the library at all, many students gladly will. | 3Sci/Tech |
OSLO, Norway - Confronting a grocery store with its promise to pay shoppers a bonus if they found any products with expired freshness dates, two enterprising teens turned a 7,000 kroner ($1,030) profit by loading up shopping carts with out-of-date beer they weren't old enough to buy. The boys, ages 14 and 15, got th... | 0World |
TUNIS : Tunisians head to the polls to cast their ballots in legislative and presidential elections in which the ruling party of long-time President Zine El Abidine Ben Ali is widely tipped to come out victorious. | 0World |
AP - Prosecutors who spent more than three years on the CIA leak case, like the defense lawyers on the other wide, have been given just three hours to make their final arguments to jurors. | 0World |
Land Warrior axed by Pentagon but may live again
The US Army's controversial wearable-tech programme for foot soldiers, known as " Land Warrior ," may not be dead after all.⊠| 3Sci/Tech |
NEW YORK (Reuters) - Stock index futures rose slightly on Tuesday, indicating a higher market open, after data showed an index of overall U.S. producer prices fell in June. | 2Business |
GAZA (Reuters) - Palestinian Prime Minister Ismail Haniyeh's guards fired into the air on Monday to clear a path through striking workers who mobbed his motorcade in another sign of deep divides on the road to a unity government. | 0World |
AFP - Bangladesh's main opposition threatened to stage more protests if reforms promised by the country's interim government were not implemented within 24 hours. | 0World |
AFP - India's booming cellphone market is adding 1.7 million customers every month and will grow between 15 percent and 20 percent annually, a senior industry official said. | 0World |
Redmond steps up competition with Adobe in open source software, saying it will provide free access to its most sophisticated development tools. | 3Sci/Tech |
Reuters - A suicide bombing in Algeria that
killed 19 people and wounded more than 100 marked two worrying
developments for the energy exporting country's fight to end
attacks by armed groups seeking a purist Islamic state. | 0World |
New Spurs boss Juande Ramos sees Christopher Samba smash an injury-time winner at White Hart Lane. | 0World |
BEIJING (Reuters) - The first shipments of Chrysler cars built by China's Chery Automobile Co. could reach the U.S. or Europe within 30 months, Chrysler said on Wednesday, opening the door for Chery to be the first mainland auto maker to do so. | 2Business |
97% of websites fall short WCAG guidelines
Ninety-seven per cent of websites fail to achieve a minimum level of accessibility, according to the first ever global web accessibility survey. A new UN convention aims to change that.⊠| 3Sci/Tech |
AP - Poland's top missile defense negotiator said Tuesday that Warsaw could conclude by September an agreement to host U.S. interceptors and accused Russia of trying to sidetrack talks with an alternative proposal. | 0World |
West Indies won the toss and elected to bowl first in the ICC Champions Trophy final at the Oval. England retained the same XI that has brought them three victories in the tournament so far. | 1Sports |
AP - The Toronto Blue Jays and manager John Gibbons have agreed to a one-year, $650,000 contract extension, a team official said Monday. | 1Sports |
To err may be human, but so, too, may be the ability to run. Specifically, the ability to run long distances across the African savannah may have given human ancestors an evolutionary advantage | 3Sci/Tech |
PARIS: Captain Sergei Semak grabbed a hat-trick as CSKA Moscow won 3-1 at Paris St Germain on Tuesday but a late goal in Porto denied the Russian team a place in the knockout stages of the Champions League, handing Russian billionaire Roman Abramovich a | 1Sports |
The Walt Disney Company's multimillion-dollar contract with Michael S. Ovitz was unreasonable and one of the most generous ever, a compensation expert testified yesterday. | 2Business |
Merchants who spent the past few weeks hoping shoppers would splurge on gifts opened their doors Sunday with high hopes the same people would now spend on themselves. | 2Business |
Dwyane Wade returned from his injury and played an amazing first half. The NBA MVP just did his usual thing, from start to finish. | 1Sports |
Reuters - Research In Motion Ltd. reports
second-quarter earnings on Thursday and investors and analysts
will be keenly watching for word of sales of the new BlackBerry
Pearl, the wireless e-mail device the company is hoping will
capture a slice of the broader consumer market. | 3Sci/Tech |
A memorial service will be held near the Faslane naval base today for the sailor who died on the stricken Canadian submarine the Chicoutimi. | 0World |
There will be many tributes that focus on the accomplishments of Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat, who died Wednesday, but he is responsible for the deaths of thousands | 0World |
Robert Mondavi Corp. said it would sell not only the Napa Valley facility, perhaps America's most famous winery, but all of its high-end wine ventures in California and around the world, to concentrate on | 2Business |
PC World - Japan's Seiko Epson Corp. is planning to develop a range of products based on a Microsoft's Windows Rally technology for wireless networked devices. | 3Sci/Tech |
The Republic of Ireland's World Cup qualifying tie in Switzerland hardly needed an extra edge but Clinton Morrison added to what is being billed as a revenge match with accusations of racism against Alexander Frei. | 1Sports |
Qualcomm Inc. (QCOM.O: Quote, Profile, Research) , a maker of chips used in mobile phones, on Friday said it may change the way it recognizes royalties from licensees | 2Business |
AP - Green Bay Packers wide receiver Koren Robinson was sentenced Wednesday to 90 days for violating probation in a drunken driving case. The sentence allows Robinson to finish this season before having to serve the time. | 1Sports |
The Coordinating Committee on the Cessation of Hostilities, composed of representatives from the Philippine government and the rebel Moro Islamic Liberation Front (MILF), agreed | 0World |
SAN SALVADOR -- It wasn't exactly traditional, but it got to the heart of the holiday. | 0World |
By Anne D'Innocenzio NEW YORK -- As kids keep getting plugged into the Internet, toy makers are following them online. | 3Sci/Tech |
The nation's banks are heavy users of the complex financial contracts at the heart of Fannie Mae's accounting woes, but bank regulators and financial experts said banks likely will avoid Fannie's troubles. | 2Business |
TOKYO/SHANGHAI (Reuters) - Troubled Japanese electronics maker Sanyo Electric Co. said on Friday it would shoulder with China's Lenovo Group the cost of recalling 205,000 Sanyo-made laptop battery packs that can overheat. | 2Business |
A Pac-Man-like game that delivers electric shocks to gamers reveals the brain's reaction to danger. | 3Sci/Tech |
In a letter outlining Microsoftâs hopes to Yahoo C.E.O. Jerry Yang, Microsoft C.E.O. Steven Ballmer followed a storied tradition on Wall Street: the bear hug letter. | 2Business |
AP - Internet providers told Congress on Tuesday they're doing all they can to combat online child pornography, but they were told to expect legislation. | 3Sci/Tech |
For all of 2006, the worldâs largest automaker reported a $2 billion loss but cited progress in its restructuring. | 2Business |
Rumor became reality Tuesday night as golf star Tiger Woods, 28, wed his girlfriend, Elin Nordegren, 24, at an exclusive Barbados resort, according to the Associated Press. | 1Sports |
The problem that I have with some of the iPhone alarmism is that it leaves an impression that enterprise data is highly secure and that there aren't lots of other potentially much larger holes on which to focus. | 3Sci/Tech |
Western Japan around Osaka was shaken by two strong earthquakes yesterday, causing 18 injuries and triggering tsunami warnings along the coast, Kyodo News reported. | 0World |
PARIS (Reuters) - Imagine your car warning you of an icy road ahead, reading aloud the text messages arriving on your phone and sending you an e-mail that your fuel pump needs replacing soon. | 3Sci/Tech |
Secretary of State Colin Powell's declaration that genocide had taken place in western Sudan's Darfur only serves to heighten tensions, a top Sudanese official charged Thursday. | 0World |
ISLAMABAD - Pakistan and India have agreed in principle to open the railway link between the two border towns of Monabao in India's Rajasthan and Khokrapar in Pakistan's Sindh Province, a Pakistani Foreign Ministry spokesman said Friday. | 0World |
The bodies of 12 people killed by police in the northern Nigerian city of Kaduna are exhumed to find out how they died. | 0World |
Ryan Newman must be close to perfect the rest of the way to win the NASCAR Nextel Cup Series championship, and he took a step by earning the pole yesterday at Martinsville Speedway. | 1Sports |
Sony Corp. said Tuesday it will begin selling in Japan two new models of digital portable music players that support the MP3 format, which is used by its rival iPod. | 3Sci/Tech |
US forces launched a "precision strike" on Thursday on a building in Falluja said to be used by fighters loyal to Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, and Iraqi doctors said at least three people were killed. | 0World |
RIO DE JANEIRO (Dow Jones)--After jumping 9% in 2003 and 19% in 2004, iron ore prices appear likely to rise another 20% or more in 2005 as the world's biggest steelmakers | 2Business |
Pakistani troops hunting for militant leader Abdullah Mehsud clash again with insurgents. | 0World |
Schmidt, Josephine T. (Nee Matsche) Born to Eternal Life on Wed., Dec. 6, 2006, age 71 years. Beloved wife of the late Ervin. Loving mother of Michael (Sandra) and Allen. Dear grandmother of the late Nicholas. Step- grandmother of Shana Styer. | 3Sci/Tech |
Scientists genetically engineer leafy greens to mass-produce miraculin, a chemical that makes pure lemon juice taste sweet when applied to the tongue. By Aaron Rowe. | 2Business |
DETROIT (Reuters) - Ford Motor Co. on Thursday said
U.S. January vehicle sales fell 19 percent from a year earlier
because of reduced sales to daily-rental companies. | 2Business |
By San Jose Mercury News, Calif. Jun. 1 | 3Sci/Tech |
Manchester United's struggles continued Monday with a 0-0 tie versus Everton at Old Trafford on Monday with the two clubs also in transfer talks over the sale of England star Wayne Rooney. | 1Sports |
US Education Secretary Margaret Spellings, criticized for her oversight of the $85 billion-a-year student-loan industry, proposed banning company gifts to colleges and establishing rules for how schools recommend lenders. | 2Business |
NEW YORK Art Howe will finish out the season as manager of the New York Mets. He announced today that he will finish out the campaign and manage the Mets for the final 17 games of the season. | 1Sports |
LONDON : Unilever, the Anglo-Dutch consumer products giant, is to close a frozen-food plant in Grimsby, northern England, next year with the loss of 600 jobs, a spokesman said. | 2Business |
PARIS (Reuters) - The ex-wife of French President Nicolas Sarkozy on Friday lost an attempt to hold up publication of a book in which she is quoted as describing her former husband in unflattering terms. | 0World |
Today, the Lancet medical journal published a report which concludes that 100,000 civilians died in the US-led invasion of Iraq. This is an incredibly high estimate, and at first may seem too farfetched not to be propaganda. But it cannot easily be dismissed. The report's authors are researchers from Johns Hopkins Univ... | 3Sci/Tech |
SALISBURY, Md. -- Olympic gold-medalist Michael Phelps has apologized after his arrest for driving under the influence. He was arrested after a state trooper saw an SUV allegedly driven by the 19-year-old | 1Sports |
All revealed tomorrow, pundits predict | 3Sci/Tech |
Palestinian leader Mahmoud Abbas says he and Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon have declared a truce. | 0World |
Since before vice presidential candidate John Edwards brought attention to the South's vanished textile mills, ex-mill workers and historians have been working to save the mills' legacy. | 3Sci/Tech |
DAVID BECKHAM last night backed Michael Owen to prove he deserves to be a Real Madrid galactico but admitted that his new club-mate will have to prove it himself. | 1Sports |
AP - Pope Benedict XVI and the spiritual leader of Orthodox Christians prayed together in an Istanbul church Thursday, a service intended to underline their commitment to healing the 1,000-year-old rift between the two churches. | 0World |
Kosovo's prime minister gives the clearest indication yet that independence from Serbia will be declared on Sunday. | 0World |
CHICAGO (Reuters) - Sears Holdings Corp. on Tuesday forecast lower quarterly profit and admitted that it needs to become more relevant to consumers and control its costs, sending its shares down more than 7 percent in premarket trading. | 2Business |
AP - Ben Gordon scored 25 points and Kirk Hinrich had 17 in the Chicago Bulls' 100-76 victory over the Orlando Magic on Thursday night. | 1Sports |
Fined: Former Food and Drug Administration Commissioner Lester Crawford was sentenced to three years probation and fined more than $89,000 for failing to disclose he owned shares in companies the agency regulated. | 2Business |
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. consumer prices dropped in July for the first time in eight months as a sharp run up in energy costs reversed, the government said on Tuesday in a report showing underlying inflation pressures largely in check. | 2Business |
TOKYO: Toyota Motor Corp will more than double the number of its hot-selling Prius hybrid cars allocated for sale in the United States next year. | 2Business |
KIRKUK, IRAQ - Al-Jazeera television released new video footage Saturday of three hostages in Iraq and said a militant group threatened to behead the men unless its demands were met. | 0World |
By JAMES A. CARLSON MILWAUKEE - All 18 endangered young whooping cranes that were led south from Wisconsin last fall as part of a project to create a second migratory flock of the birds were killed in storms in Florida, a spokesman said. | 3Sci/Tech |
Seiko Epson have unveiled their latest wireless flying micro-robot named the FR-II. The successor to the FR robot the latest micromechatronic contraption has a number of improvements. It is 2.3g heavier than the original FR at 12.3g but does away with the ... | 3Sci/Tech |
Thank-you, Mr Gates
Romania's president delivered an enconium to software piracy during Bill Gates' world tour promoting Windows Vista.⊠| 3Sci/Tech |
Plus: Row brewing over peer-to-peer ads. [News.com Extra] | 3Sci/Tech |
By Bob Shaw, Pioneer Press, St. Paul, Minn. Jun. 3--WOODBURY -- No one will say who it is, but the Water-Hog of Woodbury has become a bit of a legend. | 3Sci/Tech |
The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) has asked the Supreme Court to hear an appeal that could determine whether cable broadband providers can be forced to open their networks to other Internet providers. | 3Sci/Tech |
Russia urged ending the isolation of the anti-Israeli militant group Hamas and including Syria in Middle East peace talks, exposing fissures in a high-level diplomatic group that Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice gathered yesterday in Washington to validate her new effort to end the... | 0World |
Tony Romo and Eli Manning loom as Cowboys-Giants rivals for the next decade. | 1Sports |
(Source: Symantec) This white paper demonstrates how the Symantec APM solution helps organizations keep SOA applications running at peak performance to improve interactions and enhance business agility, flexibility and productivity. | 3Sci/Tech |
Reuters - MasterCard Inc., the world's No. 2
credit-card association, priced an initial public offering of
stock worth about $2.4 billion on Wednesday, amid expectations
of strong demand for one of the financial services industry's
top brands. | 2Business |
TORONTO (Reuters) - Online dating renews women's hope in
love and sex, but can be just as disappointing as the real-life
dating scene, according to new Canadian research. | 3Sci/Tech |
The search giantâs shares declined sharply in after-hours trading despite its 58 percent increase in quarterly revenues. | 3Sci/Tech |
AP - Nigeria's ruling party on Sunday chose a Muslim from the north as its candidate for presidential elections that will mark the first transfer of power between elected governments since Nigeria's independence in 1960. | 0World |
Saving has always been a business value. With the greening of the data center comes the greening of the balance sheet. In this Executive Briefing, we provide tips and tricks to help reduce power consumption, waste and chaos. | 3Sci/Tech |
DETROIT (Reuters) -Ford Motor Co. F.N said on Friday it would pay veteran aerospace executive Alan Mulally $18.5 million to join the troubled automaker as its new chief executive in addition to an annual salary of $2 million. | 2Business |
AFP - The South Korean government is warning of tough action against union militancy as legislation aimed at increasing flexibility in South Korea's labor market triggered a head-on collision with labor groups. | 0World |
Fidelity Investments plans to allow new investors to put money into Magellan, once the largest mutual fund in the U.S., for the first time in more than a decade. | 2Business |
Recycling rates from local authorities show England should reach its 17% target for 2003/4. | 3Sci/Tech |
Italy's Valentino Rossi remained on course to complete the defence of his MotoGP world championship in Sunday's Australian Grand Prix by taking provisional pole on Friday. | 1Sports |
Retreating glaciers caused by global warming in the Swiss Alps are a reality. Now there's concern the warming could harm the small country's famed ski industry. | 3Sci/Tech |
Unbeaten Orlando Hernandez pitched seven innings of five-hit ball to win his eighth straight decision, and the New York Yankees beat Sidney Ponson and the Baltimore Orioles 5-2 Saturday. | 1Sports |
Digital music player maker Creative sees its profits fall by 84%, on increased advertising costs and an investment loss. | 2Business |
As Delta Air Lines (nyse: DAL - news - people ) agonizes over whether to seek the shelter of Chapter 11, ATA Holdings (nasdaq: ATAH - news - people ) beat them to the punch. | 2Business |
Five Democrats in Harlem weigh in on the choice between Barack Obama and Hillary Rodham Clinton. | 0World |
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