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Miller's Deal With Brewers Is Finalized (AP) AP - Catcher Damian Miller's #36;8.75 million, three-year contract with the Milwaukee Brewers was finalized Monday after team doctors allayed concerns over his health. | 1 |
Industry doubts Boeing, Lockheed launch team viable Facing increasing budget pressures, the US Air Force is considering asking rivals Boeing Co. (BA.N: Quote, Profile, Research) and Lockheed Martin Corp. | 2 |
Cingular posts \$650M with AT amp;T Says that amount would have been earned for the first 9 months of 2004, before AT amp;T purchase. LOS ANGELES, (Reuters) - Cingular Wireless would have posted a net profit of \$650 million for the first nine months | 2 |
Ebersol's Son Feared Dead After Crash (AP) AP - The 14-year-old son of NBC Sports chairman Dick Ebersol was presumed dead Monday after a fiery jet crash that killed two crewmen and left the injured executive and another of his sons begging bystanders for help. | 1 |
FA to ban spitter Diouf El-Hadji Diouf is expected to receive a three-match ban for spitting in Arjan de Zeeuw #39;s face during Bolton #39;s Premiership match against Portsmouth on Saturday. | 1 |
Ponting slow to declare Australia #39;s coach John Buchanan was forced to defend his captain Ricky Ponting #39;s decision to delay his declaration until four overs after lunch on the fourth day of the second Test against New Zealand in Adelaide. | 1 |
A fight destined to become a classic Saturday night #39;s super featherweight title bout between Marco Antonio Barrera and Erik Morales at the MGM Grand Garden Arena is sure to be 2004 #39;s fight of the year and will be included among | 1 |
Cracknell to take a year off British rowing looks set to lose the services of two of its Olympic champions in the space of 24 hours. Today Matthew Pinsent, who has won four Olympic gold medals, is expected to announce his retirement. | 1 |
Mayor, Council Prepare For Stadium Vote WASHINGTON -- The delayed decision on a planned \$440 million baseball stadium to house the Washington Nationals appeared close to the necessary seven votes Monday, with District of Columbia Council Chair Linda W. Cropp pledging not to stand in the way. | 1 |
Cuba Restores Contacts with European Embassies HAVANA (Reuters) - Cuba ended a diplomatic deadlock with eight European Union nations on Monday in response to proposals by EU officials to stop inviting dissidents to National Day receptions in Havana. | 0 |
US Says Iran Increasingly Isolated, Pressured, on Nuclear Issue The Bush administration says the new International Atomic Energy Agency resolution on Iran shows that Tehran is increasingly isolated over its nuclear program. | 0 |
Annan #39;surprised #39; at son #39;s link to oil-for-food scandal The United Nations has revealed that the son of the secretary general, Kofi Annan, worked for a company being investigated in the Iraqi oil-for-food scandal for four years longer than he first admitted. | 0 |
IAEA Agrees on Plan to Police Iran Nukes (AP) AP - The U.N. nuclear agency agreed Monday on a plan for policing Iran's nuclear programs designed to avoid a showdown at the United Nations. But Iran's representative immediately raised questions about the wording of the pact, and the United States said it retained the right to take the case to the U.N. Security Council on its own. | 0 |
Resignation of disgraced Fiji VP fails to quell anger over prison release (AFP) AFP - The resignation of disgraced Fiji Vice-President Ratu Jope Seniloli failed to quell anger among opposition leaders and the military over his surprise release from prison after serving just three months of a four-year jail term for his role in a failed 2000 coup. | 0 |
The JM Smucker Company Announces Strategic Actions ORRVILLE, Ohio, Nov. 29 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- The JM Smucker Company (NYSE:SJM) today announced several actions to refine its portfolio and improve its cost base as well as service levels in support of its long- term strategy. | 2 |
LSU Going Miles to Fill Coaching Vacancy BATON ROUGE, La. (Sports Network) - LSU has named Les Miles its new head football coach, replacing Nick Saban. | 1 |
Utah's Smith to Turn Pro SALT LAKE CITY (Sports Network) - Utah standout quarterback Alex Smith has apparently decided to take his skills to the next level, opting to skip his senior season and enter April's NFL Draft. | 1 |
IBM Unveils Latest #39;On-Demand #39; Tech Center com. IBM on Monday unveiled a technology lab for customers looking to test the company #39;s products for managing computer resources based on business demands. | 3 |
Upgrade downs 80,000 UK government computers Staff at the United Kingdom #39;s Department for Work and Pensions were unable to use their PCs this week after a routine software upgrade knocked out 80 percent of the computers in the sprawling department. | 3 |
FOOTBALL: I FEAR LOVELL WILL LEAVE US LIKE NOVO JONAY HERNANDEZ fears Dundee striker Steve Lovell could be set to follow Nacho Novo out of Dens Park. Lovell continued his impressive start to the season by shaking off a virus to bag a double | 1 |
Human rights activist to stand in Egyptian presidential election (AFP) AFP - Egyptian-American sociologist and human rights activist Saad Eddin Ibrahim said he is planning to stand in the process to elect Egypt's next president that kicks off in May. | 0 |
With ban imminent, Prince William joins fox hunt (AFP) AFP - Britain's Prince William went fox hunting, six weeks before the controversial centuries-old bloodsport is to be banned forever, a spokeswoman said. | 0 |
Senior Hamas Leader Holds Out Possibility of Cease-Fire with <b>...</b> A senior leader of the Islamic militant group Hamas says his organization will not stand in the way of an Israeli-Palestinian peace agreement if it is fair for the Palestinians. | 0 |
Smucker #39;s To Close Salinas Facility In 2005 SALINAS, Calif. -- The JM Smucker Co. announced Monday that it will close its Salinas facility by the end of 2005. The closure is the result of restructuring of operations, company officials said. | 2 |
IBM opens on-demand lab com November 29, 2004, 4:35 PM PT. This fourth priority #39;s main focus has been enterprise directories for several months, but for many IT managers, ERP (enterprise resource planning | 3 |
Aung San Suu Kyi still under house arrest The Myanmar government has extended for a third time the house arrest of Nobel Laureate Aung San Suu Kyi, the BBC said Monday. U Lwin, a spokesman for Aung #39;s National League | 0 |
Gold Fields investors snub bid Harmony #39;s bid to create the world #39;s biggest gold miner suffered a blow yesterday when the first part of its offer for South African rival Gold Fields received a lukewarm reception from shareholders. | 2 |
UPDATE 1-US backs strong dollar, expects Chinese FX reform America has not changed its strong dollar policy and still expects China to make its own currency more flexible, a Treasury official said on Monday, shrugging off comments from Beijing that had jolted markets. | 2 |
Bombardier shares drop to new lows after third Bombardier jet <b>...</b> MONTREAL (CP) - Shares in Bombardier Inc. fell to new lows Monday, partly due to the crash of another of its jets on Sunday, the third fatal crash of a Bombardier aircraft in two months. | 2 |
Suicide Bomber Kills 12 in Attack on Iraqi Police (Reuters) 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. | 0 |
HD-DVD Gains Three Backers November 29, 2004 - After months of momentum for Blu-ray, HD-DVD has shot back with a big gain - studio support. Toshiba Corp., which has been developing the HD-DVD format, announced it has lined up Warner Bros. | 3 |
Chiefs QB Trent Green Questionable (AP) AP - Quarterback Trent Green was undergoing X-rays of his sore ribs Monday and is listed as questionable for this week's game at Oakland. | 1 |
James, Marion named NBA Players of the Week NEW YORK (Ticker) -- Forwards LeBron James of the Cleveland Cavaliers and Shawn Marion of the Phoenix Suns on Monday were named the NBA #39;s Eastern and Western Conference Players of the Week. | 1 |
Insurgents Kill 7 Iraqi Security Forces (AP) AP - Insurgents stepped up attacks on Iraq's fledgling security forces, killing seven Iraqi police and guardsmen Monday in a suicide bombing hours after storming a police station north of the capital. The military reported five new U.S. deaths. | 0 |
Gunmen Kill Photojournalist in Mexico (AP) AP - Gunmen killed a newspaper photographer as he and his family ate in a restaurant in the northwestern state of Sinaloa, the home turf of nearly all of Mexico's top drug bosses, authorities said Monday. | 0 |
Canada to boost defence and security commitments during Bush visit (Canadian Press) Canadian Press - OTTAWA (CP) - Canada may eventually agree to send soldiers to train Iraqi military officers but it won't make any commitments when U.S. President George W. Bush visits the capital on Tuesday. | 0 |
Al-Qaeda deputy in new tape Ayman al-Zawahri, Osama Bin Laden's suspected right-hand man, appears in a video on Arab TV. | 0 |
Broncos Game Big for Chargers (AP) AP - It's been a long time since the San Diego Chargers played as big a game as they'll have Sunday, when they host the Denver Broncos. | 1 |
HP updates Openview to meet business needs Hewlett-Packard will use this week #39;s Software Universe conference in Madrid to announce a revamp of its Openview enterprise systems management software. | 3 |
MPs demand action on DWP mess MPs are demanding action after a routine software upgrade at the Department for Work and Pensions left 80 of desktop PCs unable to link to core mainframe-based social security systems. | 3 |
Microsoft offers to replace fake Windows XP Users who fear that their Windows XP software might be counterfeit could get free legitimate replacements from Microsoft under a scheme announced last week. | 3 |
Even with a patchwork secondary, the Patriots just keep on winning As both the weeks and the wins pile up for the Patriots, the more preposterous it becomes. Already it #39;s as farfetched and fanciful as anything that has happened in the NFL this season, Ben Roethlisberger #39;s magic carpet ride included. | 1 |
Chirac names ally to replace rival THE French president promoted a staunch ally to replace a popular finance minister, strengthening his hand ahead of an expected struggle for the governing party #39;s 2007 presidential nomination. | 0 |
Stock Fund Inflow Slows To #36;7.17 Bil (Investor's Business Daily) Investor's Business Daily - A tight election and volatile stock market slowed investor enthusiasm for stock mutual funds in October, but their appetite appeared to increase in November. | 2 |
Chinese PM Redirects Blame for Currency Rates to Washington Chinese Prime Minister Wen Jiabao has rejected pressure for exchange rate reforms and criticized the United States for not doing its part to keep the dollar from weakening. | 2 |
Peru Starts Offensive to Reclaim Siege Town (Reuters) Reuters - Peruvian police and troops on Monday\launched an offensive to retake a police station in a southern\Andean town and end a three-day siege by ex-soldiers demanding\the resignation of unpopular President Alejandro Toledo. | 0 |
Lehman Brothers Names Christopher M. O #39;Meara Chief Financial <b>...</b> NEW YORK, Nov. 29 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Lehman Brothers, the global investment bank, today announced that Christopher M. O #39;Meara, 43, has been named Chief Financial Officer. | 2 |
Sony PlayStation 3 to use Cell chip Sony announced that, in partnership with IBM and Toshiba, it is working on developing a Cell chip, which is designed to deliver high-definition content in an efficient manner. | 3 |
Sharman turned blind eye to copyright filtering, court told Sharman Networks was able to filter Kazaa to prevent copyright infringement, but instead chose to build a massive user base for advertising revenue, the Federal Court heard on day one of the peer-to-peer provider #39;s widely-anticipated trial. | 3 |
Government lab, company lead project to develop nuclear fission <b>...</b> SALT LAKE CITY -- If hydrogen created in a nuclear reactor ever winds up fueling cars and homes and businesses decades from now, it might all owe its thanks to a pottery kiln. | 3 |
SCO Group Web Site Attacked Again Software maker SCO Group has been targeted by hackers once again. This time, the company #39;s Web site was defaced. The attacks began during the long holiday weekend and were first noticed | 3 |
Sun to buy remote-management firm Sun Microsystems has signed a deal to acquire SevenSpace, a company whose technology is expected to expand Sun #39;s remote-management services beyond what #39;s possible with the computing giant #39;s own equipment. | 3 |
McGrath keeps up the pressure New Zealand were clinging on for dear life at 149 for five as play came to a close at the Adelaide Oval on the fourth evening. Their main hope was rain, for the fifth-day forecast | 1 |
Tourists hoping to surprise Aussies at home PAKISTAN cricket coach Bob Woolmer is hoping his new look team can catch Australia by surprise when their three Test series starts next month. | 1 |
McGee makes debut on Hall of Fame ballot If popularity was part of the criteria, Willie McGee almost certainly would be a first-ballot inductee into the National Baseball Hall of Fame. | 1 |
Stanley Works buying two security companies NEW BRITAIN, Conn. (Dow Jones/AP) _ The Stanley Works agreed to buy Security Group Inc., a maker of locks and access systems, and said it completed the acquisition of Cal-Dor Specialties Inc. | 2 |
HP rejiggers utility computing line Hewlett-Packard next year will take a fresh approach to its utility computing initiative with a product designed to lower the cost of running corporate computing systems. | 3 |
Project Aims to Develop Hydrogen Power A government laboratory and a private company announced a \$2.6 million project Monday to develop hydrogen in a nuclear reactor using a process with | 3 |
Beijng may reconsider deals on Microsoft software The Beijing municipal government may reconsider its software procurement since it became target of criticism for giving Microsoft the lion #39;s share of a large software purchase order, analysts say. | 3 |
Valve prevails in cyber-cafe rights case Judge rules that VU Games is quot;not authorized quot; to distribute Valve games in cyber-cafes; other claims, amount of damages remain at issue. | 3 |
Dragon Quest VIII Playtest November 29, 2004 - IGN picked up Dragon Quest VIII on Saturday along side at least one full percent of the population of Japan, then rushed home to play the game. | 3 |
Armored Core: Clean Front November 29, 2004 - Being part of the PSP launch doesn #39;t just mean being the first to play PlayStation Portable games. Sure, that part #39;s cool -- as is lording over your friends and family as one of the only | 3 |
Rowing: Cracknell takes year out to seek new challenges James Cracknell confirmed yesterday that he will be taking a year out from his rowing career, a day before his fellow gold medallist from the Olympic fours at this year #39;s Olympics, Matthew | 1 |
Burns to stay on as Smith agrees four-year deal with Scotland The Scottish Football Association yesterday made a formal offer to the former Rangers manager and, pending the ratification of his appointment at a board meeting on Thursday, Smith will be officially unveiled as the successor to Berti Vogts on a four-year | 1 |
Cuban Gov't Releases Several Dissidents (AP) AP - At least three of the original 75 dissidents arrested in a broad crackdown last year were released for health reasons Monday, according to friends, relatives and local rights activists. The surprise move raised hopes for additional releases in the coming days. | 0 |
Baseball Ace Scout Rex Bowen Dies at 93 (AP) AP - Rex Bowen, the great baseball scout who signed Bill Mazeroski, Maury Wills and Dick Groat, died at 93. | 1 |
IAEA not to refer Iran #39;s nuclear issue to UN The Board of Governors of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) Monday afternoon decided that it will not submit Iran #39;s nuclear issue to the UN Security Council for discussion. | 0 |
Australian PM makes ASEAN debut under pressure to sign non-aggression pact (AFP) AFP - Australian Prime Minister John Howard meets Southeast Asian leaders in Laos under growing pressure to sign a non-aggression pact with them to dispel concern about his policy of pre-emptive strikes. | 0 |
AP: EPA Looking at Using Tests on People (AP) AP - In setting limits on chemicals in food and water, the Environmental Protection Agency may rely on industry tests that expose people to poisons and raise ethical questions. | 0 |
Sportsview: Effort Benefits Steelers (AP) AP - All the Buffalo Bills had to do to make the playoffs was beat a Pittsburgh team playing Brian St. Pierre at quarterback, Willie Parker at running back and a bunch of other no-names. | 1 |
Dollar Rebounds; Tone Cautious on U.S. Jobs NEW YORK (Reuters) - The dollar rebounded on Monday after last week's heavy selloff, but analysts were uncertain if the rally would hold after fresh economic data suggested the December U.S. jobs report due Friday might not live up to expectations. | 2 |
Wells Fargo Takes Control of Strong (AP) AP - Banking giant Wells Fargo amp; Co. has taken control of embattled mutual fund provider Strong Financial Corp., completing an acquisition negotiated more than seven months ago under the cloud of a financial scandal. | 2 |
Brazil's Trade Surplus Is Biggest Ever (AP) AP - Brazil racked up its biggest trade surplus in history last year, but the country's export boom of everything from soybeans to automobiles is expected to ease in 2005. | 2 |
VW considers opening Indian plant Volkswagen confirms it is looking at the possibility of opening an Indian production facility, but insists it has yet to make a final decision. | 2 |
IBM, Sony, reveal plans for #39;Cell #39; chip TOKYO - IBM, Sony and Toshiba on Monday announced the first technical details of the widely-anticipated quot;Cell quot; processor, also known as a quot;supercomputer on a chip, quot; with Power architecture at its heart. | 3 |
Are you sitting comfortably? Then let #39;s spy This priority retains its ranking at number five as more and more companies deploy Web services to share business logic, data and processes with each other and with clients. | 3 |
Smith set for Scotland job but Knox may join Gough WALTER Smith is expected to be named as the new Scotland manager this week but the identity of his assistant remains unclear, with his long-term sidekick Archie Knox wanted by Richard Gough to be the No2 at Livingston. | 1 |
Gatlin, Hayes win US Jesse Owens Awards Olympic champions Justin Gatlin and Joanna Hayes won the 2004 Jesse Owens Awards by USA Track amp; Field (USATF) on Monday. The awards, named in honor of the late Olympic great | 1 |
Warning over US pensions deficit Leading economists say US taxpayers may have to pay for a pensions shortfall at the agency that protects pensions funds. | 2 |
Annan Says His Son #39;s Payments Created a #39;Perception Problem #39; The United Nations secretary general, Kofi Annan, said yesterday that he had not known that his son had continued receiving payments until February of this year from a Swiss inspection company | 0 |
Online Shopping Increases, Malls And Stores Report OK Sales Minneapolis (WCCO) Were you part of the shopping opener this weekend? Malls and department stores report sales were not spectacular. | 2 |
Halliburton settles insurance dispute Halliburton Co. said Monday a bankruptcy judge approved the final insurance settlement agreements between Halliburton subsidiaries and insurance carriers. | 2 |
UPDATE 1-Perry acquires 9.89 percent stake in Mylan Labs Investment firm Perry Corp. on Monday said it holds a 9.89 percent stake in Mylan Laboratories Inc. (MYL.N: Quote, Profile, Research) , exceeding the holdings of financier Carl | 2 |
Celtics Beat Magic 117-101 to End Skid (AP) AP - Doc Rivers got his team back on track while gaining a measure of revenge on his old squad, and the Boston Celtics snapped a four-game losing streak by beating the Orlando Magic 117-101 on Monday night. | 1 |
Spot On: Dragon Quest VIII fever hits Japan A years-long phenomenon continues as crowds gather to buy the latest installment of Square Enix #39;s RPG series. TOKYO--When it comes to the popularity of video games in Japan, one of the franchises that can #39;t | 3 |
Scientists unveil project to extract hydrogen in nuclear reactors If hydrogen created in a nuclear reactor ever winds up fueling cars and homes and businesses decades from now, it might all owe its thanks to a pottery kiln in Salt Lake City. | 3 |
Government procurement cannot save china #39;sl software industry Recently, the Government Procurement Office of Beijing Municipality issued the Notice of Beijing Municipal Information Office on the Result of the Government Procurement Project for Copyrighted Software Vendors of Computer Operating Systems, Office Suites | 3 |
DoCoMo, MMO2 to Offer I-Mode Service in UK, Ireland (Update1) NTT DoCoMo Inc., Japan #39;s largest mobile-phone operator, and MMO2 Plc will introduce a cellular- phone service in the UK, Ireland and Germany based on the Japanese carrier #39;s i-mode wireless Internet technology. | 3 |
Score One for Gordon Freeman November 29, 2004 - Valve announced today that it won summary judgement against Vivendi Universal Games in Valve #39;s suit regarding cyber cafe game licensing. | 3 |
Fratton fracas HARRY REDKNAPP and Milan Mandaric face a sensational public showdown today to thrash out the crisis at Portsmouth. Pompey chairman Mandaric, in a bid to clear the air, has agreed to sit side | 1 |
US thwarted over Iran This latest IAEA resolution on Iran isn #39;t the result the United States wanted. Its own intense lobbying at successive IAEA Board of Governors meetings has consistently recommended that the | 0 |
I still believe in Eta train-bomb link, says Aznar The former prime minister of Spain, Jos Mara Aznar, mounted a vigorous defence of his decision to commit troops to Iraq yesterday as he became the first ex-premier to face questioning by a parliamentary commission. | 0 |
William Safire: #39;My Son, My Son Thanks to Claudia Rosett, an enterprising reporter writing in The New York Sun, the world now knows that some information put out by Secretary General Kofi Annan about his son #39;s involvement with a Swiss inspection company at the heart of the UN oil-for | 0 |
Body of NBC Executive's Son Believed Found MONTROSE, Colo. (Reuters) - The body believed to be that of NBC Sports Chairman Dick Ebersol's 14-year-old son was recovered on Monday from under the wreckage of an aircraft that crashed in western Colorado and killed two others, officials said. | 1 |
Son's Payments on Deal Disappoint Annan (AP) AP - Secretary-General Kofi Annan said Monday he was "very disappointed and surprised" that his son had continued to receive payments until this February from a firm that had a contract with Iraq's oil-for-food program, the subject of numerous corruption investigations. | 0 |
Fresh Floods Kill at Least 26 in the Philippines MANILA (Reuters) - Floods and landslides caused by heavy rains killed at least 26 people in the northern and central Philippines, disaster officials said on Tuesday, a week after storms left about 160 dead or missing. | 0 |
Yushchenko seeks confidence vote Opposition leader Viktor Yushchenko pursues a vote in parliament, as the crisis in Ukraine continues. | 0 |
Reeling Merck Offers Officers a Bonus Deal With its stock plunging, the drug giant Merck has adopted a plan that could give its top executives big bonuses if the company is taken over. | 2 |
Kellogg appoints Jenness CEO after Gutierrez resigns to join <b>...</b> DETROIT Kellogg has appointed James Jenness as chairman and chief executive, following the resignation of Carlos Gutierrez. The cereal maker #39;s board of directors elected the 58-year-old Jenness during a special meeting. | 2 |
Intelsat buy-out to be reviewed The proposed \$5bn buy-out of Intelsat will be renegotiated after one of its satellites malfunctioned causing disruption to the services of Playboy, the spacecraft #39;s anchor tenant. | 2 |
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