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France Opens Judicial Inquiry Into Holocaust Doubter PARIS (Reuters) - French prosecutors said Monday they were opening a judicial investigation into comments by a leading far-right politician who questioned whether the Nazis used gas chambers in the Holocaust. | 0 |
Stocks fall sharply, quickly A disappointing holiday sales forecast from Wal-Mart is dragging on blue chips, while Apple Computer is a bright light on Wall Street. | 2 |
Merck Execs Protected in Case of Takeover Merck amp; Co. Inc. has adopted a severance benefits plan aimed at protecting key managers in the event the company is taken over -- a growing possibility since the withdrawal of arthritis drug Vioxx sent shares tumbling. | 2 |
Royal Group Removes Chairman De Zen, Names New Chief (Update2) Royal Group Technologies Ltd. fired Chairman Vic De Zen, the target of a police probe, and Chief Executive Douglas Dunsmuir after finding they failed to disclose their interest in a parcel of land sold to the company in 1998. | 2 |
Universal Pictures backs HD-DVD quot;Toshiba Corp. said in a statement today it has received separate commitments of support not only from Universal, but also from Paramount Pictures, New Line Cinema, and Warner Bros. | 3 |
SCO Web site hack mocks company #39;s legal claims NOVEMBER 29, 2004 (IDG NEWS SERVICE) - Malicious hackers have compromised The SCO Group Inc. #39;s Web page twice in as many days, posting messages that appear to mock the company #39;s claims to own parts of the Linux operating system. | 3 |
Quake Shakes Mount St. Helens Scientists hoped good weather yesterday and today would allow them to get a better look at the volcano. A flurry of small earthquakes beginning in late September were followed by a burst of steam and ash on | 3 |
Bison overkill theory maybe debunked by DNA Big game hunters may be off the hook in the latest twist of a prehistoric whodunit that tries to explain why bison populations sharply crashed thousands of years ago. | 3 |
Pompey plan to set record straight LONDON, England -- Portsmouth chairman Milan Mandaric and former manager Harry Redknapp have called a clear-the-air news conference at the Premiership club on Tuesday. | 1 |
Blue Jays buy SkyDome com. The phrase quot;buyer beware quot; has yielded to quot;lease, be gone. quot; The Blue Jays announced on Monday that they had acquired their home field -- SkyDome -- from Sportsco International. | 1 |
Fictional Billionaires (Forbes.com) Forbes.com - Mickey Mouse may be 75, but age hasn't put a damper on his earning power. Last year Mickey and Disney pals Minnie, Donald, Daisy, Pluto and Goofy grossed #36;5.8 billion from toys, movies and the like. That's 23 more than the year before, when Disney's Winnie the Pooh topped the list. Why the mouse's rebound? Credit hoopla and new products--including adult apparel--tied to Mickey's milestone birthday last year. For more details, stories and methodology, go to forbes.com/extra. | 2 |
Loss of Intelsat Satellite Threatens \$3.1 Bln Deal PHILADELPHIA (Reuters) - The planned \$3.1 billion takeover of satellite operator Intelsat Ltd. could be in jeopardy after an electrical problem ruined one of the company's satellites on Sunday. | 2 |
Cereal chief gets US commerce job The chairman of food giant Kellogg, Cuban-born Carlos Gutierrez, is named new US Commerce Secretary. | 2 |
Christmas spending 'set to rise' Warnings of a poor Christmas for High Street retailers in the UK are unduly pessimistic, according to accountants Deloitte Touche. | 2 |
Retailers Seen Posting Modest Nov. Sales (Reuters) Reuters - U.S. retailers are expected to post\modest November sales this week, with No. 1 retailer Wal-Mart\Stores Inc. already cutting its holiday outlook on high\oil prices and warmer weather. | 2 |
Retailers Seen Posting Modest Nov. Sales NEW YORK (Reuters) - U.S. retailers are expected to post modest November sales this week, with No. 1 retailer Wal-Mart Stores Inc. <A HREF="http://www.investor.reuters.com/FullQuote.aspx?ticker=WMT.N target=/stocks/quickinfo/fullquote">WMT.N</A> already cutting its holiday outlook on high oil prices and warmer weather. | 2 |
Ukraine crisis 'sparks bank rout' Worries over the political situation have sparked a run on Ukraine's banks, the country's central bank admits. | 2 |
Kellogg appoints Jenness CEO after Gutierrez resigns to join <b>...</b> Kellogg Co. on Monday announced the appointment of James M. Jenness as chairman and chief executive, following the resignation of Carlos Gutierrez to take the post of US Commerce Secretary. | 2 |
Retailers have modest start to holiday shopping The holiday shopping season began with a surge in spending, but consumers faded by the end of the long Thanksgiving weekend and many retailers were facing decent but hardly impressive sales. | 2 |
Update 2: Euro #39;s Eclipse of Dollar Is #39;Unwelcome #39; The euro #39;s growing strength against the US dollar is quot;unwelcome, quot; the European Central Bank chief said Monday as the 12-nation European currency hovered just below a record high. | 2 |
Dollar worries prompt Wall Street selloff Fears of a falling US dollar pushed stocks lower Monday as investor concerns about rising inflation outweighed their satisfaction with a decent start to the holiday shopping season. | 2 |
Hollywood Backs Toshiba on DVD Format (AP) AP - Japanese electronics maker Toshiba Corp. is getting support from four Hollywood studios for its next-generation DVD format which is expected to be used in players, recorders and other products that go on the market late in 2005. | 3 |
Sirius to Air Men's NCCA Tournament (AP) AP - Sirius Satellite Radio signed a deal to air the men's NCAA basketball tournament through 2007, the latest move made in an attempt to draw customers through sports programming. | 1 |
Kazaa Offering Free Internet-Based Calls (AP) AP - Free Internet-based phone calls are the newest feature of the popular Kazaa file-sharing program. | 3 |
Universal Pictures Backs HD DVD Universal said HD DVD can deliver enhanced picture and sound quality, greater storage capacity and increased interactivity. An additional benefit is backwards compatibility, allowing existing | 3 |
Tech Trio Share Cell Processor Details IBM, Sony, and Toshiba dropped some details on the co-developed next generation processor, code-named Cell, which was first announced in 2001. | 3 |
SCO Group Web Site Attacked Again Pages were defaced with text that erroneously implied that SCO would sue Microsoft for intellectual-property theft. By George V. Hulme. | 3 |
Recording Industry, Kazaa Square Off (AP) AP - Lawyers for Australia's recording industry branded the popular Kazaa computer file-swapping network "an engine of copyright piracy to a degree of magnitude never before seen" as they launched a court battle Monday to shut down its activities. | 3 |
Team spends \$21.24 million for SkyDome TORONTO -- The Toronto Blue Jays agreed to buy SkyDome, the team #39;s ballpark, for about \$21.24 million. The 50,000-seat stadium, which opened in 1989, cost about \$375 million to construct and was mostly funded by taxpayers. | 1 |
Good Reward for McGaughey in Hollywood Derby Shug McGaughey hadn #39;t sent a horse to California for 11 years, since the fall Lure won the Breeders #39; Cup Mile at Santa Anita. | 1 |
Satellite Failure Hits Broadband Users (PC World) PC World - StarBand is hoping to provide temporary dial-up access to affected customers. | 3 |
Powerful quake injures 17 as Japan waits for the big one (AFP) AFP - A powerful earthquake measuring 7.1 on the Richter scale injured 17 people in northern Japan in a new sign of seismic activity a month after the country's deadliest tremor in a decade. | 0 |
Easy Group signs up with T-Mobile (FT.com) FT.com - Easy Group on Monday confirmed that it has signed a deal with T-Mobile to offer mobile services in the UK as it targets a formal launch of EasyMobile in March next year. | 3 |
BCS Standings Unchanged With Auburn No. 3 (AP) AP - Auburn needs an upset. The Tigers are still stuck behind first-place Southern California and second-place Oklahoma in the Bowl Championship Series standings, heading into the final weekend before the national title game is decided. | 1 |
Amnesty Int #39;l: Bhopal Gas Leak Victims Still Suffer 20 Years Later Amnesty International says tens of thousands people still suffer appalling illnesses from one of the world #39;s worst industrial disasters that struck the central Indian city of Bhopal 20 years ago. | 0 |
Study: Scurvy Hit Early N. American French Colony (Reuters) Reuters - Scurvy wiped out nearly half of the\colonists who established one of the first French settlements\in North America 400 years ago, scientists confirmed on Monday. | 3 |
Europe's Tug-Of-War on GMO Crops Rages On (Reuters) Reuters - UK scientists pronounced some\genetically modified (GMO) crops harmless Monday but European\Union experts demurred, declining to approve another new GMO\product for the eighth time in a row. | 3 |
Post Office Gearing Up for Holiday Rush (AP) AP - The Postal Service expects to handle 20 billion pieces of mail between Thanksgiving and Christmas, up slightly from last year, the agency said Monday. | 0 |
Major UK Study Sees Little Harm in GMO Crops (Reuters) Reuters - A controversy over genetically modified\(GMO) crops brewed in Britain Monday after a major government\and industry-backed study found no evidence they harmed the\environment. | 3 |
Suicide Bomber Kills 12 in Attack on Iraqi Police BAGHDAD (Reuters) - A suicide car bomber plowed into policemen waiting to collect their salaries at a police station west of Ramadi Monday, killing 12 people in the latest insurgent attack on Iraq's beleaguered security forces. At least 10 people were wounded in the blast, and 90 percent of the casualties were policemen, said Nazar al-Hiti, a doctor in the town of Hit around 125 miles west of Baghdad, where the dead and wounded were taken. | 0 |
Marines Aided by Robotic Airplane in Iraq (AP) AP - A robotic airplane called ScanEagle has done more than 1,000 hours of intelligence and reconnaissance work for the Marines in Iraq, its developers said. | 3 |
Sophisticated Radar System Protects Bush (AP) AP - The reason Brown International got into the business of guarding the president with a sophisticated radar command center is really quite simple, its officers say. Repairing televisions just wasn't paying enough. | 3 |
U.S.-Russian Crew Re-Docks Spaceship (AP) AP - The U.S.-Russian crew of the international space station successfully re-docked a spaceship at a new port on the station Monday in preparation for two spacewalks early next year, Mission Control said. | 3 |
It is a perfect time to be with Renault: Giancarlo Fisichella After his first test last week in Barcelona, Giancarlo Fisichella sat down to share his thoughts about his progress so far, and his first impressions of the Renault team. | 1 |
Nobel winner in degree protest "Buckyball" pioneer Sir Harry Kroto slams a UK University's plans to close its chemistry department. | 3 |
Bush nominates Kellogg #39;s CEO for commerce WASHINGTON - President Bush on Monday nominated Carlos Gutierrez, a native of Cuba and now the chief executive officer of Kellogg Co. | 2 |
A glimpse of the Cell processor IBM and Sony powered-on the much hyped quot;Cell quot;-processor and used the opportunity to provide a few details about the chip. | 3 |
Toshiba Dreams of Hollywood Toshiba is getting support from four Hollywood studios for its next-generation DVD format which is expected to be used in players, recorders and other products that go on the market late in 2005. | 3 |
Celtics lose fourth straight The Celtics come close again -- but ultimately lose 106-to-104 to the Miami Heat Sunday night. Paul Pierce missed one of two free throws with five seconds left that would have tied it for Boston, which lost its fourth straight. | 1 |
SCO Web site hack mocks company's legal claims Malicious hackers have compromised The SCO Group's Web page twice in as many days, posting messages that appear to mock the company's claims to own parts of the Linux operating system. | 3 |
Crude oil futures flat; Saudis look to raise capacity LONDON (CBS.MW) -- The benchmark New York crude contract was little changed at \$49.44 a barrel early Monday after the Saudi Oil Minister Ali Al-Nuaimi said the country will raise production capacity to 12.5 million barrels per day within a few years from | 2 |
Studios Support Toshiba #39;s DVD Format Four major motion picture studios will support the HD DVD videodisk format. New Line Cinema, Paramount, Universal and Warner Bros. | 3 |
Firefox Registers Usage Gains, Though IE Remains Dominant NOVEMBER 29, 2004 (COMPUTERWORLD) - The open-source Firefox Web browser may be making inroads on Internet Explorer with some users, but Microsoft Corp. | 3 |
Nintendo, Sony game for gaming war The holiday shopping season is set to be a shoot- #39;em-up round in the video game industry, as its top players Nintendo and Sony go head to head by launching new and advanced hand-held machines. | 3 |
Toronto Blue Jays to Buy SkyDome for \$21 Million The Toronto Blue Jays baseball team will buy their home stadium, the SkyDome, from closely held Sportsco International for C\$25 million (\$21 million), team owner Rogers Communications Inc. | 1 |
USC strengthens BCS No. 1 hold; Oklahoma still No. 2 Philadelphia, PA (Sports Network) - Southern California and Oklahoma are still the top teams in the Bowl Championship Series standings, while Auburn remained third and on the outside looking in at the national championship game with one week remaining in | 1 |
Woolmer hopes to spring a surprise A youthful Pakistan cricket squad arrived in Perth Monday night bristling with confidence at the daunting task which confronts them in the upcoming Test series against Australia. | 1 |
Marc Bulger (2819 yards, 15 TD, 11 INT) is coming off a so-so <b>...</b> ball compared to last year. His most crucial INT last Sunday came early in the. to all but end any chance of a comeback. Torry Holt (8 receptions, 90 yards). | 1 |
Spadafora appears in Allegheny County court PITTSBURGH The trial for a troubled boxer charged with shooting his then-girlfriend after a traffic mishap has been delayed until next month. | 1 |
Wal-Mart Sales Cast Gloom, Stocks Fall NEW YORK (Reuters) - Stocks fell on Monday after Wal-Mart Stores Inc. <A HREF="http://www.investor.reuters.com/FullQuote.aspx?ticker=WMT.N target=/stocks/quickinfo/fullquote">WMT.N</A> recorded disappointing Thanksgiving sales, hurting hopes for a strong holiday retail season. | 2 |
News: SCO hacked in apparent IP protest Visitors to SCO's website this morning were treated to a rare moment of corporate self-awareness after hackers apparently replaced an image linking to the undoubtedly scintillating "Extending Legacy Applications and Databases to the Web and Wireless Devices with SCOx Web Services Substrate" with a graphic bearing the rather more promising "We own all your code - pay us all your money"\ | 3 |
Toshiba Dreams of Hollywood Four major movie studios give support to Toshiba's HD DVD format. Also: Sony gives details on new computer chip hellip;. Kazaa adds free internet phone calls to its repetoire hellip;. and more. | 2 |
Retailers Post Mediocre Holiday Sales Lucinda Antal, of Liverpool, England, right, tests lipstick shades on her hand at the Face store in New York Sunday Nov. 28, 2004, assissted by salesperson David Kalahiki. | 2 |
Merrill, UBS Up Apple Stock Estimates As consumers start spending on Christmas, two brokerage houses raised their estimates on Apple Computer (AAPL) stock Monday to more than US\$77, predicting | 2 |
Priorities Are Askew at the FCC NOVEMBER 29, 2004 (COMPUTERWORLD) - It must be tough being America #39;s nanny, especially when there #39;s so much real work to do. | 3 |
Screensaver to attack Spammers Lycos Europe has released a special screensaver for Windows and the Mac OS platforms that will attack spam web pages. The screensaver Make Love No Spam will overload a variety of spam servers by flooding | 3 |
Rogers Communications Agrees to Buy SkyDome for C\$25 Million Rogers Communications Inc. #39;s Toronto Blue Jays agreed to buy the SkyDome from Chicago, Illinois-based Sportsco International LP for C\$25 million (\$21.1 million), the team said in a press release. | 1 |
Soccer: Henry, Ronaldinho and Shevchenko nominated for FIFA #39;s <b>...</b> PARIS : French striker Thierry Henry, Brazilian Ronaldinho and Andriy Shevchenko of Ukraine were nominated for FIFA #39;s world player of the year award for 2004. | 1 |
Improved Heat Not Content With Start (AP) AP - The Miami Heat are atop their division, own the best in-conference record among teams in the East and have won twice as many games as they've lost. | 1 |
China forges landmark free trade pact with Southeast Asian nations Rising power China moved Monday to expand its influence in a region long dominated by the United States, signing an accord with Southeast Asian nations aimed at creating the world #39;s largest free trade area by 2010 - sprawling | 0 |
Compensation plan for 27,000 Pinochet victims Chile #39;s government is to seek congressional approval to compensate more than 27,000 victims of political imprisonment and torture at the hands of the country #39;s rightwing military regime, which ruled from 1973 to 1990. | 0 |
Al-Zawahri Vows to Keep Fighting U.S. (AP) AP - In a videotape aired Monday, Osama bin Laden's top lieutenant vowed to continue fighting the United States until Washington changed its policies. | 0 |
Hill brings magic back to NBA (The Sporting News) The Sporting News - The day after the colossal mess into which his team landed in Detroit, Pacers coach Rick Carlisle paused to say something most in attendance tolerated impatiently. Indiana was preparing to face Orlando, and Carlisle said unprovoked, "It will be good to see Grant Hill. To me, he is an important athlete. He is a great guy, and to see him out there, it's great." | 1 |
Death toll from China coal mine blast rises to about 50 (AFP) AFP - The death toll from a blast in a north China coal mine rose to about 50 after more than 20 bodies were found, the Xinhua news agency said. | 0 |
U.N. Told to Protect Civilian Victims of Conflict (Reuters) Reuters - The United Nations must offer better\protection to 25 million civilians displaced by conflicts from\Sudan to Colombia, a report said on Friday. | 0 |
Fear has put \$15 on oil price, says Naimi Oil prices are inflated by as much as \$15 a barrel by fears of shortages and geopolitical issues in the Middle East, Ali Naimi, the Saudi oil minister, said on Monday. | 2 |
Rolls Royce hot seat to be filled by BMW SA chief A BMW executive currently in charge of the company #39;s extensive South African operations is to become the third chairman and chief executive of Rolls-Royce Motor Cars within a year. | 2 |
Sony prefer PS2 over PSP Sony is not exactly going mega with the launch of its handheld gaming system named PSP on December 12. Instead, critics already fear that getting hand on one would be a very tough affair. | 3 |
Lycos launches screensaver in fight against spam Haarlem (pts) - The Internet portal Lycos http://www.lycos-europe.com has developed a screensaver that endlessly requests data from sites that sell the goods and services mentioned in spam e-mail. | 3 |
Nothing funny about silly money Among the many unique things proponents of professional golf like to point out is that the athletes who play the game for pay are different than those who toil in other sports because golf has no guaranteed contracts. | 1 |
Kellogg appoints Jenness CEO after Gutierrez resigns to join <b>...</b> DETROIT - President Bush #39;s choice of Kellogg chief executive Carlos Gutierrez as commerce secretary leaves the cereal and snack giant without the dynamic leader who has guided its remarkable turnaround. | 2 |
Disappointing holiday news hurts retail shares Shares in a range of area retailers dipped Monday on disappointing Thanksgiving sales data from Wal-Mart Stores Inc. In addition, ShopperTrak, which tallies sales results from 30,000 stores nationwide, said | 2 |
Anil sends out another mail, now to RIL Reliance Industries Ltd (RIL) employees have got another email. This one went from their vice-chairman, Anil Ambani, on Monday seeking their support for both himself and elder brother and chairman Mukesh Ambani. | 2 |
Reliant, Dynegy, El Paso Traders Are Indicted by US for Fraud Five former employees of Dynegy Inc., El Paso Corp. and Reliant Energy Inc. were indicted on US charges of reporting bogus energy trades. | 2 |
Sovereign CFO Hogan to Retire Sovereign Bancorp Inc. on Monday said chief financial officer James D. Hogan will retire from the position after helping the northeastern regional bank grow dramatically through a succession of acquisitions and other financial deals. | 2 |
Airbus to get go ahead to start marketing A350 Airbus, the European aircraft maker, is expected to receive approval within weeks from its shareholders, EADS and BAE Systems, to start marketing the planned A350 mid | 2 |
China Automotive Stock Doubles on Pacts Shares of China Automotive Systems Inc. more than doubled in value Monday after the company said it was chosen as the exclusive steering pump supplier for a vehicle made by SAIC GM Wuling Automobile Co. | 2 |
UnitedHealth Group Buys Definity Health MINNEAPOLIS - UnitedHealth Group said Monday that it will acquire Definity Health Corp. of Minneapolis for \$300 million cash. Definity is best known for offering what are commonly called consumer driven health | 2 |
Cingular Wireless Loss Is Alltels, MetroPCS Gain In the aftermath of its purchase of AT amp;T Wireless, Cingular Wireless is selling several sets of 10 megahertz wireless licenses to two different carriers. | 2 |
Loss of Intelsat satellite could threaten sale BETHESDA, Md. The loss of an Intelsat satellite knocked out Internet access for many customers of Starband, a McLean-based provider of online access via satellite. | 2 |
Russian Official Details Iraqi Debt Deal Iraq will owe Russia between US\$700 million (euro530 million) and US\$1 billion (euro750 million) after the bulk of its debt is forgiven under a deal with international creditors, Finance Minister Alexei Kudrin was quoted as saying Monday. | 2 |
Investors Eye Brokerages 4Q Reports Some of the Wall Street brokerages on tap to report earnings next month might see better-than-expected results as a rebound in the stock market is expected to fuel performance within their equities businesses. | 2 |
Sony, IBM, Toshiba say powerful chip to start production in 2005 SAN JOSE, Calif. A long-awaited microprocessor developed by IBM, Sony, and Toshiba will go into production next year and start appearing in video game consoles and high-definition T-Vs in 2006. | 3 |
Microsoft WINS Said To Be Vulnerable Microsoft said Sunday it #39;s looking into reports of a security screw-up in Windows Internet Name Service (WINS), a component of its most popular server software, including Windows NT 4.0 Server, Windows 2000 Server, and Windows Server 2003. | 3 |
US-Russian Crew Re-Docks Capsule After a 23-minute flight from the Pirs docking port to the Zarya cargo module, Russian Salizhan Sharipov and American Leroy Chiao re-docked the Soyuz TMA-5 spaceship. | 3 |
Series of earthquakes rattle Mount St. Helens MOUNT St. HELENS, Wash. - Three earthquakes ranging in magnitudes between 2.6 and 2.8 rattled Mount St. Helens Sunday evening and into Monday morning. | 3 |
iPod adoption rate faster than Sony Walkman Based on one Wall Street analyst #39;s findings, the popularity of Apple #39;s iPod is exceeding that of Sony #39;s Walkman during the 80 #39;s and 90 #39;s. | 3 |
Major IT Crash Hits UK Government Department A software upgrade caused some 40,000 computers to crash at the UK government #39;s Department for Work and Pensions last week. The crash of the Windows-based systems took most of the department #39;s computers offline for five working days. | 3 |
Microsoft Plans Last Windows 2000 Update With Microsoft spending most of its upgrade development time on Windows XP, it was only time before they announced plans to stop updating Windows 2000. | 3 |
Screensaver tackles spam websites Internet portal Lycos has made a screensaver that endlessly requests data from sites that sell the goods and services mentioned in spam e-mail. | 3 |
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