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Orgeron to finalize deal with Rebels Ed Orgeron, Southern California #39;s assistant head coach and defensive line coach, has agreed to become the new coach at Mississippi, USC athletic department sources have told ESPN. | 1Sports |
Intrigue, power plays as Iraq campaign season starts Mass graves, war criminals, and Iranian agents: welcome to the campaign trail in Iraq. Even before he announced his | 0World |
S. Lanka Peace Bid at Critical Low - Norway Envoy Sri Lanka #39;s bid to forge lasting peace with Tamil Tiger rebels after two decades of civil war is at its most critical ebb since a 2002 truce, Norway #39;s peace envoy to the country said on Wednesday. | 0World |
Australia to Boost Security Net Around Coastline Australia plans to strengthen its coastal security with a controversial surveillance footprint that stretches south of New Zealand to north of Indonesia. | 0World |
US anti-missile shield test fails The first test of the United States anti-missile shield in nearly two years, has failed. Our correspondent, John Shovelan, reports the Missile Defence Agency says the ground-based interceptor has shut down, due to an unknown anomaly. | 2Business |
Expos' Move to D.C. on Verge of Collapse (AP) AP - Washington's new baseball team shut down business and promotional operations indefinitely Wednesday as its move to the nation's capital teetered on the brink of collapse. | 1Sports |
Sprint and Nextel Announce quot;Merger of Equals, quot; Spin-Off Of <b>...</b> Sprint and Nextel Communications have signed a merger agreement. The combined company, which will adopt the name Sprint Nextel, will serve nearly 40 million wireless customers. | 2Business |
First flight test of new missile defense interceptor fails The Bush administration #39;s ambitious national missile defense program suffered a major setback on Wednesday when a malfunction forced a shutdown of the first test | 2Business |
HP Hands Over Itanium to Intel Intel #39;s (INTC:Nasdaq - news - research) plans for high-end computing reached a sad milestone Tuesday, with Hewlett-Packard (HPQ:NYSE - news - research) saying it would end the partnership that developed the less-than-successful Itanium chip. | 3Sci/Tech |
Apple Locks Out RealNetworks With iPod Update Apple Computer has updated the software for some of its iPod digital media players so that songs bought from RealNetworks won #39;t play. | 3Sci/Tech |
Melodeo signs mobile music agreements with Telefnica, Warner US-based mobile music solutions provider Melodeo, Inc. and the Warner Music Group (WMG) today announced the signing of a global agreement that allows consumers to securely download entire tracks from WMG #39;s | 3Sci/Tech |
Making the most of season #39;s big gift: iPod By all accounts, millions of people will buy or receive Apple Computer #39;s iPod digital-music players this holiday season. The gadgets are beautifully designed and simple to operate, which is one reason they | 3Sci/Tech |
Ants use geometry, odour to find way PARIS: Ants use angled signposts, using tiny scent markers, to find their way home or follow the path into the wilderness, according to a study published on Wednesday in Nature, the British science weekly. | 3Sci/Tech |
Anger Rises as Does Toll in Remote Indian Islands PORT BLAIR, India (Reuters) - Tempers flared over the sluggish pace of relief efforts in India's remote and restricted Andamans and Nicobars on Sunday as hundreds of bodies lay scattered around the islands a week after the tsunami struck. | 0World |
Washington Mayor: Baseball Deal Near Dead Washington, DC, Mayor Anthony Williams on Wednesday said the deal to bring Major League Baseball back to the US capital was close to dead after the city council changed the plan to require private financing. | 1Sports |
Sexson signs with Mariners Seattle, WA (Sports Network) - The Seattle Mariners have found their slugging first baseman, as they agreed to terms Wednesday with free agent Richie Sexson on a four-year contract. | 1Sports |
Rick Majerus Named USC Men #39;s Basketball Coach For 2005-06 Season Los Angeles - Rick Majerus, one of college #39;s top basketball coaches who has won more than 400 games and made 15 post-season appearances in his 20-Year career, was hired today (Dec. 15) as USC #39;s men #39;s basketball | 1Sports |
Time Warner To Pay \$210 Million To Settle AOL Charges The charges of accounting improprieties at AOL date back to 2000. Some analysts had been expecting Time Warner to pay \$500 million to \$600 million to settle all of its criminal and civil charges with the Justice | 2Business |
Crude oil prices soar on drop in heating-oil supply Crude oil prices rose sharply Wednesday as a government report showed a decline in US heating-oil stockpiles. On the New York Mercantile Exchange, crude oil futures for January | 2Business |
US mulls ending ban on airplane cell-phone calls WASHINGTON, Dec 15 (AFP) - US telecom regulators began on Wednesday to ponder whether ending a ban on in-flight cell-phone calls would jeopardize safety or simply vex other passengers. | 2Business |
Toshiba inspires breakthrough in hard disk storage Dec 16, 2004: The storage race for higher capacity and smaller sized storage hard disk drives continues with Toshiba being the latest vendor to break into the lead with the release of its newest invention. | 3Sci/Tech |
Pedro Martinez signs \$52m deal with NY Mets December 15, 2004 -- Pedro Martinez confirmed Tuesday during an interview in his home in the Dominican Republic that he has agreed to join the New York Mets. | 1Sports |
International Donors Warn Sri Lankan Government About Disrupting <b>...</b> The United States and two other international donors have criticized Sri Lanka #39;s coalition government, after one of its partners made statements the donors say could disrupt efforts to restart peace talks with separatist rebels. | 0World |
Aachen Complete Fairytale by Reaching Last 32 German second division side Alemannia Aachen progressed to the knockout stages of the UEFA Cup after a 2-0 win against AEK Athens in Group H. Aachen had gone into Wednesday | 1Sports |
England: Lua-Lua denies Reds LIVERPOOL, Dec 15 (SW) - Rafael Benitez Liverpool were held to a 1-1 draw by Portsmouth last night, after Lua-Lua grabbed an equalizer in the stoppage time. | 1Sports |
Football Press Conference Set For Thursday Morning OXFORD, Miss. - A press conference to announce the hiring of a new head football coach at The University of Mississippi has been scheduled for Thursday morning, December 16, at 10:00 am, in the new Indoor Practice Facility. | 1Sports |
JONES SUES CONTE FOR \$32 MILLION US sprint star Marion Jones has filed a \$US 25 million (\$AUD 32.7 million) defamation lawsuit against accused steroid peddler Victor Conte saying he has sullied her reputation by making false claims she used banned performance enhancing drugs. | 1Sports |
Celtics #39; Gugliotta back on injured list Gugliotta, who has a mild right ankle sprain, is averaging 1.5 points and 2.3 rebounds in eight games this season. He played in just one game after coming off the injured list on December 1 with lower back pain. | 1Sports |
Helpers battle Sri Lanka floods Aid teams in Sri Lanka battle the aftermath of flash floods as they try to prevent the spread of disease among survivors. | 0World |
Bengals QB Expects to Miss Bills Game (AP) AP - Carson Palmer was still on crutches Wednesday and resigned to missing the Cincinnati Bengals' next game because of a sprained left knee. | 1Sports |
U.N. Expands Iraq Presence Beyond Baghdad (AP) AP - The United Nations is expanding its presence in Iraq outside Baghdad to the cities of Basra and Irbil but is planning to have only about 25 electoral experts in the entire country ahead of elections next month, a U.N. spokesman said Wednesday. | 0World |
Sexson Agrees to #36;50M Deal With Mariners (AP) AP - The Seattle Mariners added power to one of the weakest lineups in baseball Wednesday, agreeing to a #36;50 million, four-year contract with free agent first baseman Richie Sexson. | 1Sports |
USSF Threatens to Drop Players From Cup (AP) AP - The U.S. Soccer Federation is threatening to drop all experienced players from the roster for its next World Cup qualifier unless the union agrees to a new labor contract by Feb. 1. | 1Sports |
Cincinnati QB Expects to Start in Bowl (AP) AP - Cincinnati quarterback Gino Guidugli has the cast off his broken throwing hand and expects to start when the Bearcats play in the Fort Worth Bowl next week. | 1Sports |
Aid group warns of jobs catastrophe with end of textiles quota system (AFP) AFP - Millions of desperately poor workers, particularly women, will lose their jobs next year following the lifting of a global system of textile and clothing tariffs, a leading aid agency warned. | 0World |
Calgary police charge man with series of vicious rapes from 1988-92 (Canadian Press) Canadian Press - CALGARY (CP) - More than 12 years after a serial rapist terrorized a quiet southwest Calgary neighbourhood, police say advances in DNA technology have led to the arrest of a 61-year-old man who was a suspect all along. | 0World |
Bush Prepares for Possible GPS Shutdown (AP) AP - President Bush has ordered plans for temporarily disabling the U.S. network of global positioning satellites during a national crisis to prevent terrorists from using the navigational technology, the White House said Wednesday. | 0World |
Yukos makes plea to US court in bid to avoid sale By Andrew Osborn in Moscow and Katherine Griffiths in New York. Yukos emitted what appeared to be its final death rattle yesterday, filing for Chapter 11 bankruptcy in the United States just four days before | 2Business |
Missile Defense Flight Test Conducted The Missile Defense Agency announced today it was unable to complete a planned flight test after the interceptor missile experienced an anomaly shortly before it was to be launched from the Ronald Reagan Test Site, Republic of the Marshall Islands, in the | 2Business |
Market share of Linux PCs to double by 2008: IDC Global market share of new andused PCs running Linux operating system is expected to grow from 3percent in 2003 to 7 percent in 2008, IDC, a US high tech market research firm, predicted on Wednesday. | 3Sci/Tech |
Study uncovers ants #39; 60 degrees of navigation Ants use angled signposts and tiny scent markers to find their way home or follow the path into the wilderness, according to a study published in British science weekly Nature. | 3Sci/Tech |
Mountain to climb for Pakistan SYDNEY: Australia and Pakistan have been involved in some classic cricketing confrontations but the spin doctors have their work cut out this time in trying to generate any real hype in the build-up to their Test series. | 1Sports |
Players: Season in Peril Veterans Chis Pronger and Jim McKenzie don't believe that hockey will return until Dec. 2005 at the earliest after talks negotiations broke down on Tuesday. | 1Sports |
Sexson Signs with Seattle First baseman Richie Sexson agrees to a four-year contract with the Seattle Mariners on Wednesday. | 1Sports |
Tyson Completes Service Charges stemming from a 2003 altercation are dropped as Mike Tyson completes community service on Wednesday. | 1Sports |
Tokyo Stocks Open Lower on Profit-Taking TOKYO (Reuters) - Japan's Nikkei average opened 0.43 percent lower on Thursday as investors took profits in Sony Corp. and other exporters that had risen in the previous three sessions. | 2Business |
Q amp;A: Stock exchange takeover With news that the London Stock Exchange (LSE) has knocked back a 1.35bn offer from its German rival Deutsche Boerse, the ordinary shareholder may be wondering what lies ahead. | 2Business |
Airlines may incur US\$5bil loss this year GENEVA: International airlines are heading for a near US\$5bil loss this year, largely due to the rise in oil prices, the industrys global body said on Tuesday. | 2Business |
Report: Intel, HP Itanium Joint Development to End Intel and Hewlett-Packard will end their 10-year long development partnership for Itanium server chips, according to a report from Reuters. | 3Sci/Tech |
Departing NASA chief faces faculty questions at LSU over possible <b>...</b> Sean O #39;Keefe stepped down from leading NASA this week and into the pole position for Louisiana #39;s top academic job, chancellor of LSU, where he met Wednesday with | 3Sci/Tech |
Uefa Cup Wrap: Rangers Crash Out Rangers European adventure has come to a disappointingly early conclusion after the Scottish giants crashed to a 2-0 defeat at home to Auxerre tonight. | 1Sports |
Tyson completes #39;sentence #39; MIKE TYSON closed the book today on one of his many run-ins with the law: his brawl last year with two men outside a Brooklyn hotel. | 1Sports |
16 including 3 Polish soldiers killed in Iraq BAGHDAD: At least 16 people including one US Marine and three Polish soldiers were killed in violence across Iraq on Wednesday. A bomb exploded near the office of a senior Shiite cleric in Karbala on Wednesday | 0World |
Bomb in Iraqi Shi #39;ite City Kills 8, Wounds 32 A bomb exploded near the office of a senior Shi #39;ite cleric in the Iraqi holy city of Kerbala on Wednesday, killing eight people and wounding 32 in a failed attempt on the cleric #39;s life, officials said. | 0World |
Kidnapped Turkish engineer found dead in Afghanistan An ambulance of the International Security Assistance Force carrying the body of Turkish Engineer Eyup Orel leaves Kabul airport in Kabul, capital of Afghanistan, Dec. 15, 2004. | 0World |
Australia to impose 1,000-mile #39;terror exclusion zone #39; In a controversial and possibly illegal step, Australia plans to intercept and board ships on the high seas if it believes them to be a terrorist threat. | 0World |
FCC to Allow Wireless Access on Planes (AP) AP - Passengers taking to the skies for U.S. flights could be checking e-mail and surfing the Web through high-speed Internet connections in a couple of years. And the day when travelers can chat away on cell phones while in flight might not be far behind. | 3Sci/Tech |
Greek Bus Hijackers Had No Explosives -Police (Reuters) Reuters - Two Albanian gunmen who hijacked a\packed Greek bus and threatened to blow it up turned out to be\bluffing because they did not have any explosives, Greek police\chief George Angelakos said on Thursday. | 0World |
Hijackers of Bus in Greece Surrender (AP) AP - Two armed men who hijacked a public bus and threatened to blow it up surrendered just after midnight Wednesday and released their six remaining hostages, ending an 18-hour standoff. | 0World |
Washington Baseball at Risk, MLB May Seek Bids (Reuters) Reuters - Washington, D.C., Mayor Anthony\Williams on Wednesday said the deal to bring baseball back to\the U.S. capital was close to dead after the city council\changed the plan to require private financing, a move Major\League Baseball called unacceptable. | 1Sports |
Bomb at Shiite Shrine Kills 7 in Karbala (AP) AP - A bomb targeting a prominent Shiite cleric killed seven people outside one of southern Iraq's holiest shrines Wednesday as campaigning began for Iraq's first post-Saddam elections #151; a vote that is going ahead despite suicide attacks and assassinations by Sunni insurgents. | 0World |
Apple Locks Out RealNetworks With iPod Update (PC World) PC World - IPod Photo won't play songs purchased from Real. | 3Sci/Tech |
Sprint Nextel Would Be 3rd Largest Carrier (AP) AP - Sprint Corp.'s #36;35 billion acquisition of Nextel Communications Inc. could challenge Cingular Wireless and Verizon Wireless for supremacy in a ruthlessly competitive business where prices are constantly dropping. | 3Sci/Tech |
IDC predicts Linux market worth #36;35 billion by 2008 (InfoWorld) InfoWorld - IDC on Wednesday painted an optimistic outlook for Linux over the next few years, predicting that overall revenue for desktops, servers, and Linux-compatible packaged software will reach #36;35 billion by 2008. | 3Sci/Tech |
Moderate Earthquake Shakes Eastern Taiwan (AP) AP - A moderate earthquake jolted eastern Taiwan on Thursday, the Central Weather Bureau said, but no damage or injuries were reported. | 0World |
First Look: Small Business Accounting Apps (PC World) PC World - Intuit, Best Software offer new features, prices with 2005 editions. | 3Sci/Tech |
IBM, Others Push for Greater U.S. Innovation (PC World) PC World - Nation needs government help to maintain competitive edge, group says. | 3Sci/Tech |
Washington Baseball at Risk, MLB May Seek Bids WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Washington, D.C., Mayor Anthony Williams on Wednesday said the deal to bring baseball back to the U.S. capital was close to dead after the city council changed the plan to require private financing, a move Major League Baseball called unacceptable. | 1Sports |
Plant to Make Clean Power from Turkey Droppings (Reuters) Reuters - Turkey leftovers will take on a whole\new use after a Minnesota company finishes construction of a\power plant fired by the birds' droppings. | 3Sci/Tech |
U.S. to More Closely Coordinate GPS Policy (Reuters) Reuters - The United States will more\aggressively promote and more tightly coordinate oversight of\its Global Positioning System, the network of satellites used\to determine precise geographic locations, the White House said\on Wednesday. | 3Sci/Tech |
Scary Faces Have Subliminal Effects, Study Finds (Reuters) Reuters - People's brains react to a\photograph of a frightened face, even when it is flashed on a\screen too quickly to be consciously recognized, U.S.\researchers said on Wednesday. | 3Sci/Tech |
Summary Box: 2004 Fourth-Hottest on Record (AP) AP - WEATHER REPORT: The year 2004 was the fourth-hottest on record, extending a trend since 1990 that has registered the 10 warmest years, a report by the World Meteorological Organization showed. | 3Sci/Tech |
Shi'ites Bombed as Iraq Poll Campaign Begins BAGHDAD (Reuters) - A bomb near a Shi'ite shrine killed eight people and a fierce attack on Iran by a minister fueled fears of sectarian strife when campaigning began on Wednesday for Iraq's first election since Saddam Hussein's fall. | 0World |
2004 Among the Hottest Years on Record (AP) AP - The year 2004, punctuated by four powerful hurricanes in the Caribbean and deadly typhoons lashing Asia, was the fourth-hottest on record, extending a trend since 1990 that has registered the 10 warmest years, a U.N. weather agency said Wednesday. | 3Sci/Tech |
Key Ruling Due on Inmates of 'Britain's Guantanamo' LONDON (Reuters) - Britain's highest court decides on Thursday how far human rights can be restricted in the "war on terror" in a major judgment on detaining suspected foreign extremists without trial. | 0World |
Haiti Ex-Soldiers Seize Aristide's Old Compound PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (Reuters) - 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 |
Democracy stirs in the Arab world Upcoming elections in Iraq, Saudi Arabia, and the Palestinian Authority are initial steps on still rocky paths to democracy. | 0World |
UN seeks more I Coast troops The UN mission says it needs extra troops to continue to maintain order in Ivory Coast which has seen renewed fighting between rival factions. | 0World |
French head warns Turkey on EU French President Jacques Chirac says Turkey can join the EU as a member if it meets entry requirements. | 0World |
Protestant Leader: IRA May Disarm on Sly (AP) AP - A key Protestant leader in Northern Ireland on Wednesday warned that the Irish Republican Army may resume disarmament in secret, rather than allow the process to be photographed as demanded by Protestants. | 0World |
Bad Sex For the past 12 years, the Literary Review has held an annual Bad Sex competition aimed at exposing "the crude, tasteless, often perfunctory use of redundant passages of sexual description in the modern novel, and to discourage it". This year's winner, drawn from a shortlist that included Will Self, Andre Brink and Nadeem Aslam, was veteran journalist and author Tom Wolfe. | 3Sci/Tech |
EU Leaders Poised to Offer Entry Talks to Turkey BRUSSELS (Reuters) - EU leaders were poised on Thursday to set a date to start accession talks with Turkey, as Turkish Prime Minister Tayyip Erdogan arrived in Brussels in an optimistic mood for a spate of last-minute diplomacy. | 0World |
Yukos files for bankruptcy protection The embattled Russian oil company Yukos has filed for bankruptcy protection in the United States to prevent the auction of its main asset Yuganskeneftegaz, the Interfax reported on Wednesday. | 2Business |
Sun must acquire Red Hat or Novell - analyst <strong>Analysis</strong> If it knows what's good for it | 3Sci/Tech |
US mobile deal keeps Vodafone in the spotlight America #39;s third-largest mobile operator, Sprint, yesterday agreed to buy the fifth-largest, Nextel, in a well-flagged cash and shares deal worth \$36.3billion (19billion). | 2Business |
Yukos Turns to US Court in Last-Ditch Effort to Prevent Sell-Off Russian officials Wednesday shrugged off the decision by embattled oil giant Yukos to file for bankruptcy protection in the US, saying the move was politically motivated. | 2Business |
Federal Reserve lifts target rate to 2.25 Federal Reserve policy-makers raised the benchmark US interest rate a quarter point to 2.25 per cent and restated a plan to carry out | 2Business |
US stocks: Markets end higher; earnings, merger news trump oil US stocks closed slightly higher Wednesday, as better-than-expected quarterly results from investment bank Lehman Brothers Holdings Inc. | 2Business |
GERMAN PAPERS Frankfurt Courts London Stock Exchange The Deutsche Boerse has tendered its second offer to buy the London Stock Exchange in four years. The last bid ended in catastrophic failure, but German newspapers generally agree on Tuesday that its chances this time around are much stronger. | 2Business |
Peace award for Margaret Hassan British national charity worker Margaret Hassan, murdered in Iraq, is honoured posthumously with a peace award. | 0World |
Google #39;s Plan Prompts a Question: What #39;s on the Web? Description: This week, the search engine Google announced plans to digitize millions of library books and make them searchable online. | 3Sci/Tech |
Four Confirmed Dead in Peru Police Shootout LIMA, Peru (Reuters) - Four police officers died on Sunday in a shootout with an armed group that took over a police station in a southern Peruvian town on New Year's Day and held 10 hostages, doctors said. | 0World |
Good News (Wells), Bad News (Schilling) David Wells passed a physical and was introduced at a Fenway Park news conference, and the timing could not have been more striking. | 1Sports |
FCC Eases Phone Network Leasing Rules WASHINGTON (Reuters) - New rules easing requirements that the big four U.S. local telephone carriers lease their networks to competitors at government-set rates, were narrowly approved by U.S. communications regulators on Wednesday. | 3Sci/Tech |
US to unveil deal with AOL on fraud charges The U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) will announce a settlement deal it has reached with Time Warnerconcerning accounting issues with its America Online(AOL) Internet division on Wednesday, according to a source familiar with the matter. | 2Business |
Dollar Under Pressure in Thin Trading TOKYO (Reuters) - The dollar was feeling the heat on Thursday as concerns about the U.S. trade and current account deficits hardened the market's view that the currency's downward spiral would continue. | 2Business |
Fannie Mae Told to Restate Earnings An official of the Securities and Exchange Commission said Wednesday a review had found that the firm had violated accounting rules and that he had told the mortgage giant to restate its earnings. | 2Business |
Drinking at last-chance saloon Yukos will on Thursday seek an injunction from a US court in a last-gasp bid to block the forced auction of its main operating unit by the Russian government on Sunday. | 2Business |
Missile-defense test ends in failure WASHINGTON - An important test of the United States #39; emerging missile-defense system ended in an \$85 million failure early Wednesday as an interceptor rocket failed to launch as scheduled from the Marshall Islands, the Pentagon said. | 2Business |
Stocks: Wall Street mixed as focus returns to profit NEW YORK Stocks bounced between gains and losses Wednesday as investors overlooked rising oil prices to focus on strong results from Lehman Brothers and Sprint #39;s much-rumored acquisition of Nextel Communications. | 2Business |
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