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Astronauts notice odor on space station WASHINGTON, Sept. 18 (Xinhua) -- Astronauts on the International Space Station (ISS) was prompted to put on protective gear on Monday after noticing a foul odor, said NASA spokesman Kelly Humphries. | 3Sci/Tech |
AP - North Korea is facing its worst food shortage in years, yet its rich southern neighbor has yet to hear the usual cry for help. | 0World |
General Motors posts global 2007 sales of 9,369,524 vehicles - putting it in a near dead heat with Toyota. | 2Business |
AP - The United States will push for more U.N. Security Council sanctions against Iran if Tehran continues to ignore council demands for suspension of the country's uranium enrichment program, the State Department said Monday. | 0World |
One bad Kevin Brown breaking ball, which Bengie Molina blasted for a three-run homer in the fifth inning, did in the Yankees on Sunday. | 1Sports |
Embattled Russian oil giant Yukos was ordered to pay over â¬1.1bn in fines and penalties today as part of a â¬3.31bn back-tax claim for 2001. | 2Business |
A year into recruiting online game development teams to its platform, the company has 100 working on a wide range of projects. | 3Sci/Tech |
SEOUL (Reuters) - President Bush and his rival, Senator John Kerry, may have clashed over how to stop North Korea's nuclear plans but their policies are not as far apart as their first debate suggested, analysts said on Friday. | 0World |
SEOUL (Reuters) - Some of the worst flooding to hit North Korea in decades has killed at least 600 people, double the previous known toll, the official news agency said at the weekend. | 0World |
PRETORIA - The South African government regretted the "outcome" of the Congress of SA Trade Union's visit to Zimbabwe but Zimbabwe had been within its rights to deport it, the Department of Foreign Affairs said here yesterday. | 0World |
AP - The Chicago Blackhawks are no longer satisfied with just winning. They want to play well while doing it. | 1Sports |
A privately-owned Dutch steelmaker headed by billionaire Lakshmi Mittal is buying US-based International Steel Group Inc. for about $4. | 2Business |
CAPE TOWN -- Lawyers defending former British prime minister Margaret Thatcher's son against charges he helped finance a coup attempt in oil-rich Equatorial Guinea challenged the legality yesterday of a South African government subpoena to question him. Mark Thatcher, a 51-year-old businessman who has lived in South Af... | 0World |
Via's new processor is intended for use in mobile devices and embedded applications. | 3Sci/Tech |
SINGAPORE, Sept. 15 -- The leaders of the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund, meeting here for a gathering of financial leaders, sharply rebuked the host government on Friday for barring the entry of 27 accredited members of anti-poverty and environmental organizations. They accused... | 0World |
DETROIT (Reuters) - General Motors Corp. said on Wednesday it swung to a profit in the fourth quarter as it cut costs and saw gains in its core auto operations. | 2Business |
AFP - France has asked the United States to give it access "as soon as possible" to the freed Syrian driver of two French reporters being held hostage in Iraq, Foreign Minister Michel Barnier revealed. | 0World |
The draw for the Third Round of the FA Cup has created a number of potential giant-killings - or more probably some bumper pay-days for several minnows of English football. | 1Sports |
Reuters - The United States is prepared for
serious discussion on the financial assets dispute with North
Korea but will not make concessions just to encourage success
in six-party talks on Pyongyang's nuclear program, a senior
U.S. official said on Tuesday. | 0World |
JERUSALEM -- A top Palestinian security leader who is a relative of Yasser Arafat escaped injury yesterday when a booby-trapped car exploded near his convoy in Gaza City, security officials said. | 0World |
By LAWRENCE AARON YOU WON'T see me applauding Katie Couric's ascension to the CBS anchor throne, even though it's being treated like some great innovation in news programming. It is not. | 3Sci/Tech |
The storm snarled air travel, made roads treacherous and cut power to tens of thousands of homes. | 0World |
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Faced with a strengthening economy and scant signs of runaway prices, the Federal Reserve appeared set to keep interest rates steady on Wednesday while keeping up a verbal guard against potential inflation. | 2Business |
Reuters - Hewlett-Packard Co. (HPQ.N) on
Friday will unveil a range of products including its version of
the iPod digital music player that raises the stakes in a war
between PC and electronics makers for a spot in increasingly
digitized living rooms. | 3Sci/Tech |
AP - Spaniards used to say they lived in one of Europe's most racially tolerant countries. Soccer has shattered that myth. In Madrid's Santiago Bernabeu stadium — the Yankee Stadium of soccer — Spanish fans bellowed out monkey noises last week each time a black English player touched the ball in a match between England... | 1Sports |
In a long awaited move, Dell has finally re-entered the blade server market with the release of the Dell PowerEdge 1855 server system. | 3Sci/Tech |
Yahoo has forged an advertising partnership with Bebo, owner of the most popular social Web site in Britain. | 3Sci/Tech |
Carson, CA (Sports Network) - Major League Soccer expansion team Club Deportivo Chivas USA named Thomas Rongen its first head coach on Thursday. | 1Sports |
ISLAMABAD, Pakistan, Aug. 23 -- Pakistan's Supreme Court on Thursday cleared the way for former prime minister Nawaz Sharif to return to the country after nearly seven years in exile, a decision that remakes the nation's political landscape and deals a major blow to President Pervez Musharraf as he... | 0World |
AP - Arnold Palmer will skip the Bay Hill Invitational for the first time since he founded the tournament in 1979, most likely ending his 52-year streak of playing on the PGA Tour. | 1Sports |
Fast facts the Fool way. | 2Business |
Software maker heads to LA to show off a host of gadgets that use one or another Microsoft technology to access movies, music and video. | 3Sci/Tech |
FRANKFURT (Reuters) - Daimler AG has named former Nokia executive Sari Baldauf and BASF Chief Executive Juergen Hambrecht as members of its supervisory board, the carmaker said on Friday. | 2Business |
King Hamad of Bahrain appoints his son, the crown prince, as deputy commander-in-chief of the army. | 0World |
ST. LOUIS (Reuters) - The Boston Red Sox won their first World Series title since 1918, and buried a curse, with a 3-0 victory over the St. Louis Cardinals Wednesday. | 1Sports |
Fast-food restaurant operator Yum Brands Inc. on Monday named David Deno chief operating officer, replacing Aylwin Lewis, who resigned to become president and chief executive of Kmart Holding Corp. | 2Business |
BEIJING, July 15 -- After four years of off-and-on negotiations, North Korea said it began closing down its main nuclear reactor Saturday, shortly after receiving a first boatload of fuel oil aid. | 0World |
Reuters - Shares of Merrill Lynch & Co rose as
much as three percent on Monday as investors bet the biggest
U.S. brokerage wouldn't keep investors waiting too long before
announcing a replacement for Stan O'Neal, who presided over the
biggest quarterly loss in the firm's 93-year history. | 2Business |
NewsFactor - There are new movements in the ongoing battle over document formats this week, with Microsoft facing new challenges and Sun Microsystems possibly facing new opportunities. | 3Sci/Tech |
ATLANTIC CITY, NJ-Donald Trump will retain the position of chairman and CEO at Trump Hotels & Casino Resorts as part of the complex restructuring of the company. | 2Business |
MOSCOW (Reuters) - Russia believes $25 million in unfrozen North Korean funds will arrive in one of its banks on Friday, deputy foreign minister Alexander Losyukov was quoted by Itar-Tass as saying, as part of a nuclear deal. | 0World |
Help take back America! Donate $50 to MoveOn PAC. With your support, MoveOn PAC will undertake a groundbreaking, precinct-level, neighbor-to-neighbor campaign to leave no voter behind. | 2Business |
MANCHESTER, England -- Manchester United tied Chelsea 1-1 Sunday in a showdown between the top two teams in the English Premier League. | 1Sports |
Michael Ovitz, who had a brief but extremely lucrative career as president of Walt Disney Co. in the mid 1990s, might emerge as the latest embodiment of corporate spending run amok. | 2Business |
Reuters - Britain's biggest phone directory
publisher, Yell Group Plc , said on Tuesday its
first-quarter turnover and profit rose sharply, due in part to
growth in the United States and at Yell.com. | 2Business |
Want an iPhone but don't want to use AT&T? A UK company says it soon will offer a service to help owners unlock their iPhones for use with other cellular operators. | 3Sci/Tech |
The fiancee of a young father shot dead outside his home tells a jury of her panic on seeing his injuries. | 0World |
By Kimberly Pierceall, The Press-Enterprise, Riverside, Calif. Feb. 10--Two years ago, as its chief executive officer and chairwoman, Carly Fiorina led Hewlett-Packard through the controversial merger that would fuse her company and Compaq. | 3Sci/Tech |
The way Antoine Deneriaz figures it, he was the fastest human on the course during yesterday's season-opening World Cup downhill at Lake Louise, Alta. | 1Sports |
South Africa fast bowler Makhaya Ntini helped slow England's progress by taking two wickets on the fourth day of the second test on Wednesday. | 1Sports |
It might have been NBA Commissioner David Stern taking his chances had he tried to enter the stands at The Palace on Sunday after suspending Ben Wallace for six games. | 1Sports |
AFP - British detectives said Friday that Benazir Bhutto was killed by the force of a suicide bomb and not gunfire, backing the Pakistani government's controversial account of how the opposition leader died. | 0World |
WASHINGTON, Feb. 23 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Today the Navy released a flawed environmental impact statement supporting its decision to build a landing field near Pocosin Lakes National Wildlife Refuge in eastern North Carolina. | 3Sci/Tech |
Snap N' Sold Corp. (Pink Sheets:SNPD) announced today that the Company's Board of Directors has elected Brian Hanold, formerly President of the Company's HotAutoWeb business unit, as the new President and Chief Executive Officer of the parent company. Mr. | 3Sci/Tech |
AP - Returning to New Hampshire's town halls, John McCain sought to remind people Saturday why they liked him during his first presidential run and why his troubled 2008 campaign is not done. | 0World |
Absent parents refusing to support their children could be 'named and shamed' on a government website. | 0World |
KATHMANDU : Troops killed at least 22 Maoists in a fierce clash in western Nepal as the rebels torched trucks and enforced a partial blockade of the capital to protest the disappearance of activists in army detention. | 0World |
AFP - Andy Roddick is coming to terms with serving a fusillade of 42 aces yet packing his bags for an early flight home from yet another under-achieving Australian Open. | 1Sports |
NEW YORK (Reuters) - JPMorgan Chase & Co said on Wednesday quarterly profit fell a worse-than-expected 24 percent as the No. 3 U.S. bank lost $1.3 billion on risky mortgages and set aside more money for rising losses on home-equity loans. | 2Business |
Elastic Path Software, pioneer of flexible ecommerce software, today announced the addition of seasoned business strategist, Ken Goldberg to its board of directors. | 3Sci/Tech |
SPACE.com - DALLAS, Texas - Taking a step into the new frontier, NASA
Ames Research Center, under the direction of Simon "Pete" Worden, has launched
an island in Second Life, an online 3-D virtual world created,
shaped, and owned by its participants. | 3Sci/Tech |
AP - Stromile Swift scored 18 points and Jason Williams added 16 to lead the Memphis Grizzlies to their ninth win in 10 games, 99-80 over the Houston Rockets on Monday night. | 1Sports |
But today that statement might be hard to understand for all the mumbling and gibberish the Bears figure to be muttering as they collectively suck their thumbs from the fetal position. | 1Sports |
UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) - The U.N. Security Council adopted a resolution on Saturday that threatens to consider oil sanctions against Sudan if Khartoum does not stop atrocities in the Darfur region. | 0World |
AP - The operators of the online hangout Facebook wanted to help users save time by highlighting changes their friends make to their personal profile pages. Instead, the new feature has drawn complaints from thousands of its users and even threats of a boycott. | 3Sci/Tech |
The designs offered the most comprehensive picture to date of what the finished complex might  just might  look like six years from now. | 0World |
Instead of resembling the Yankees' best pitcher of the second half, Orlando Hernandez on Friday looked more like someone desperately fighting a weak shoulder. | 1Sports |
Mr. Bowman was a former U.S. figure skating champion dubbed âBowman the Showmanâ for his flair on the ice. | 0World |
AP - Sections of a 32-story landmark office building on Madrid's skyline collapsed Sunday morning hours after a fire raged through the upper floors. | 0World |
NEW YORK -- Throughout 2006, T. Rowe Price analyst Susan Troll watched in horror as one risky mortgage deal after another hit the market. She became alarmed by a widening trend: mortgage lenders issuing home loans of poor quality that were then packaged and sold by Wall Street investment banks to... | 2Business |
People injured in a nightclub fire are helped to an ambulance outside a nightclub in Buenos Aires, Argentina, Friday, Dec. 31, 2004. | 0World |
Cisco CEO Chambers and other executives wooed Wall Street Wednesday with predictions for sustained long-term growth. | 3Sci/Tech |
NEW YORK (Reuters) - Investors have filed a lawsuit against Dell Inc. , accusing the computer maker of improperly accounting for hundreds of millions of dollars in payments from long-time partner Intel Corp. , an attorney for the plaintiffs said on Friday. | 2Business |
Rebels mounted fierce counterattacks against rapid advances by American troops into the southern part of Falluja. | 0World |
AP - Ernie Els birdied the 18th hole of his delayed second round Saturday to move within one shot of Ross Fisher, a little-known Englishman who leads the Dubai Desert Classic. | 1Sports |
BERLIN Sept. 5, 2004 - Chancellor Gerhard Schroeder's party was routed in elections Sunday in the small western state of Saarland, where public anger over his cuts in social programs also boosted a small | 0World |
AP - With two weeks left in the regular season, San Diego manager Bruce Bochy figures the NL West race will remain tight down the stretch. | 1Sports |
The company's buyout of fellow German firm Schering AG looks like a boon to its bottom line. | 2Business |
Tom Brady drew all but one vote Saturday in romping to The Associated Press 2007 N.F.L. M.V.P. award. | 1Sports |
The two companies do not operate in all the same markets, but Monday's warnings seemed to suggest that both were suffering from tougher competition in some areas. | 2Business |
A private banquet was held for the Notre Dame football team last night, which allowed the Fighting Irish to say goodbye to Tyrone Willingham, who was fired as coach Tuesday. | 1Sports |
TORONTO (CP) - Centerra Gold Inc. reported a sharp increase in quarterly profits compared with a year ago, helped by increased gold sales and better prices. | 2Business |
One of three Michigan men who hacked into the national computer system of Lowe's hardware stores and tried to steal customers' credit card information was sentenced Wednesday to nine years in federal prison. | 3Sci/Tech |
A militant Islamic cleric accused by the United States of being a key terror leader in Southeast Asia goes on trial Thursday, charged in the Bali bombings and the JW Marriott hotel attack in Jakarta. | 0World |
AP - Immersed for two days in the intense and arcane world of Mideast peacemaking, President Bush looked relieved Friday to see something of the landscape that all the fighting is about. Obviously moved, he even giggled, too. | 0World |
Arsenal Football Club forward Thierry Henry is one of three players nominated for the FIFA World Player of the Year Award. The Frenchman enjoyed another successful year with the Highbury club, his goals leading them to the Premiership title last season. | 1Sports |
India relied on their spin trumpcard Harbhajan Singh's guiles to clinch their first home series win in two years with a facile eight-wicket victory over South Africa in the second cricket Test here today. | 1Sports |
AP - Tropical Storm Isaac continued moving through the central Atlantic toward Canada early Saturday, and forecasters said it could become a hurricane later in the day. | 3Sci/Tech |
Jerious Norwood rushed for 174 yards and two touchdowns Saturday as the Mississippi State Bulldogs upset the 19th-ranked Florida Gators, 38-31. | 1Sports |
Intel is to hire HP's 300-member Itanium processor design team based in Fort Collins, Colorado. This will end HPâs processor development attempts within the company. | 3Sci/Tech |
Reuters - Financial markets may be all ears on
Thursday night for hints about August job growth from President
Bush, but they will be listening in vain since he plans to
purposely avoid an early peek. | 2Business |
Looking for independent stock research with results? According to Hulbert Financial Digest, Fredhager.com newsletter was up 154% in 2004. Hager was up 119% in 2003. Free report. | 2Business |
Three Australian soldiers have been injured in an explosion near the Australian embassy in Baghdad. Australian Defence Force spokesman Brigadier Mike Hannan told reporters an Australian convoy of three armoured personnel carriers were attacked. | 0World |
Myanmar's military leadership has admitted the ouster of the nation's premier was linked to corruption but denied it signalled an end to tentative democratic reforms, a diplomatic source said yesterday. | 0World |
LONDON (Reuters) - The makers of word game Scrabble have
asked Facebook to remove its popular online version
"Scrabulous," which they say infringes their copyright. | 3Sci/Tech |
By Alex Breitler, The Record, Stockton, Calif. Sep. 15--STOCKTON -- Army 1st Sgt. Ray Wheat still has the prosthetic leg that one of his ROTC students plucked out of a dry ditch in Old Mormon Slough last year. | 3Sci/Tech |
Congress announced plans yesterday to review the use of performance-enhancing drugs, with star-studded hearings scheduled next month and legislation to limit access to steroids and human growth hormone. | 1Sports |
The creator of a new video recorder, has invited skilled users to customize or âhackâ its device and share the improvements with others. | 2Business |
SACRAMENTO, Calif. (Reuters) - The Calpers board, the biggest U.S. pension fund, said on Monday it wants major car makers to meet with it and defend their lawsuit against California's new rules for reducing exhaust emissions. | 2Business |
Chevron Will Split Chief and Chairman Jobs. | 2Business |
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