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Halliburton Units Win Approval of Asbestos Settlement (Update1) Halliburton Co., the world #39;s largest oilfield-services company, said a bankruptcy judge approved a \$1.5 billion settlement of asbestos claims between two of its subsidiaries and insurers. | 2 |
Biffa upturn helps to steady Severn Severn Trent, the UK water and waste group, saw first-half profits hit by the weak US dollar, as well as a 15m pension fund charge. | 2 |
Beijing signs pact for Asean trade VIENTIANE, Laos China moved yet another step closer in cementing its economic and diplomatic relationships with Southeast Asia today when Prime Minister Wen Jiabao signed a trade accord at a regional summit that calls for zero tariffs on a wide range of | 0 |
Aznar stands by his claim of Eta link to bombings Jos Mara Aznar, Spain #39;s former prime minister, accused the Socialist government yesterday of failing to investigate suspected links between Islamic terrorists and Basque separatists. | 0 |
Suicide bomber kills 12 in attack on Iraqi police BAGHDAD: A suicide car bomber ploughed into policemen waiting to collect their salaries at a police station west of Ramadi overnight (NZT), killing 12 people in the latest insurgent attack on Iraq #39;s beleaguered security forces. | 0 |
The Process of Picking a Winner Poses Issues The college football season enters its final weekend on Saturday, but the suspense surrounding the Heisman Trophy is already gone. | 1 |
TA agrees to acquire Bulgaria #39;s MobilTel Telekom Austria yesterday said it had agreed to buy MobilTel, Bulgaria #39;s leading mobile telephone operator, in a step widely seen as preparing the way for a big share placement in the Austrian group. | 2 |
Pension hit adds to woes at Severn Severn Trent said last night it was still investigating alleged wrongdoing by its staff as it reported a 6.5 slump in first-half profits and predicted lower second-half growth from its services side. | 2 |
Stanley buying Indianapolis lock firm NEW BRITAIN, Conn. -- The Stanley Works has agreed to buy Indianapolis-based Security Group Inc., a maker of locks and access systems. | 2 |
Martha Stewart subscribers renewing at brisk pace New York (Dow Jones) -- Readers of Martha Stewart #39;s flagship magazine are renewing their subscriptions at a pace well ahead of industry norms. | 2 |
Body of NBC TV exec #39;s son believed found GRAND JUNCTION, Colo. - Moments after surviving a horrific plane crash, Charles Ebersol frantically begged bystanders for help in rescuing his kid brother from the wreckage: quot;Can you please help get him | 2 |
Oil Down 3 Pct as U.S. Winter Stays Mild NEW YORK (Reuters) - Oil prices slid 3 percent on Monday on expectations that more mild U.S. weather at the start of the New Year will limit heating oil demand. | 2 |
Hollywood snubs Sony #39;s new DVD format By Michiyo Nakamoto in Tokyo and Scott Morrison in San Francisco. Sony has suffered a big setback in its bid to set the standard for next-generation DVDs as four Hollywood studios announced they would support a rival technology backed by Toshiba. | 3 |
Turn yourself into a diamond: tips on having a good life A think tank of British scientists has come up with a new way of quickening the intellect -- a brain-taxing spin on the old formula of 100 things to do before you die. | 3 |
Bode Miller takes super-G event American Bode Miller won his first World Cup super-giant slalom Sunday, making him the first man to open an Alpine World Cup season with victories in three different disciplines and just the fifth skier to win a World Cup race in all four disciplines. | 1 |
NCAA Game Summary - Purdue at North Carolina State Raleigh, NC (Sports Network) - Julius Hodge scored 22 points and pulled down eight rebounds to lead 16th-ranked North Carolina State to a 60-53 victory over Purdue in the ACC/Big Ten Challenge at the RBC Center. | 1 |
Chirac gathers his loyalists Herv Gaymard, France #39;s agriculture minister and an ally of President Jacques Chirac, yesterday became the finance minister after Nicolas Sarkozy left to pursue presidential ambitions. | 0 |
UK ; Northern Irish parties scramble to seal deal UK News, LONDON - Gerry Adams, the head of the IRA #39;s political ally has held unprecedented talks with Northern Ireland #39;s police chief amid frantic efforts to seal a lasting settlement in the London-ruled province. | 0 |
Whales and dolphins beached in Australia More than 120 whales and dolphins died after swimming on to beaches on two southern Australian islands, where rescue teams were yesterday desperately trying to prevent others becoming stranded. | 0 |
Lapid Angrily Questions the Rabbis Decision to Vote for the Budget (IsraelNN.com) Addressing a Shinui faction meeting on Monday, party leader Minister of Justice Tommy Lapid angrily questioned how rabbis can be opposed to the Gaza Disengagement Plan while instructing United Torah Judaism to vote in favor of the state | 0 |
Dollar Higher Vs Yen TOKYO (Reuters) - The dollar rose against the yen on Tuesday on weaker than expected Japanese output figures, but traders said that recent heavy selling of the U.S. currency had not ended. | 2 |
Bush Nominates Kellogg Executive for Commerce Secretary President Bush on Monday nominated Carlos M. Gutierrez, among the most prominent Hispanic business executives in the United States, to be his commerce secretary | 2 |
Packers Lead Rams 7-0 After One Quarter (AP) AP - Brett Favre started his 200th straight regular season game Monday night, but it was Green Bay's defense that gave the Packers a 7-0 first-quarter lead over the St. Louis Rams. | 1 |
Sony, Partners Offer Glimpse Of #39;Cell #39; Chip IBM, Sony Corp., Sony Computer Entertainment and Toshiba Corp. said Monday that the companies had quot;powered on quot; the first workstation designed around the collaboratively designed quot;Cell quot; processor, which will begin pilot production next year. | 3 |
Valve Wins Round One Back in September we reported on the legal battle between Valve and Vivendi surrounding the quot;cyber cafs quot; issue where Valve served Sierra On-Line, the then-Half-Life publisher, in August 2002, suing for copyright infringement in violation of the | 3 |
Celtics 117, Magic 101 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 |
US Calls on UN Chief to Release All Oil-for-Food Facts Washington #39;s ambassador to the United Nations has urged Secretary-General Kofi Annan to promptly release all information concerning the scandal-ridden Iraq oil-for-food program. | 0 |
Pakistan Test Fires Ghaznavi Missile ISLAMABAD, Pakistan : Nov 30 (SADA) - Pakistan conducted a test of its nuclear- capable ballistic missile on Monday as part of efforts to boost its defenses, the state-run television reported. | 0 |
Retailers Post Unimpressive Holiday Sales (AP) AP - The holiday shopping season got off to a modest start after bargain-hunters jammed malls on Friday for early bird specials but did less buying the rest of the weekend after the sales ended. | 2 |
Pilots and Makers of Copters Defy the Aviation Slump In an aviation world of bankrupt airlines and despondent employees, the helicopter business is a relatively happy and optimistic niche. | 2 |
Unilateral action can stop the dollar #39;s slide The dollar has been trading at, or close to, its all-time low in European currency markets, prompting calls for the European Central Bank to intervene to stop the dollar #39;s slide against the euro. | 2 |
Bush Taps Kellogg CEO Gutierrez as New Commerce Secretary WASHINGTON - President Bush (search) prepared Monday to name his nominee to head the Commerce Department (search), and he is expected to revamp his economic team in the near future. | 2 |
Yukos Chief Plans Return To Russia The American chief executive of Yukos, the embattled oil producer whose top executives left Russia a week ago because they feared government prosecution, said yesterday that he quot;fully intends | 2 |
Four Studios Give Backing to a Format for DVD #39;s A group of companies led by the Toshiba Corporation made a major advance in the effort to define a new DVD standard as Paramount and three other Hollywood studios announced on | 3 |
Australia on brink of victory Australia were on the verge of wrapping up a 2-0 win in the series when New Zealand, chasing 464 for victory, reached lunch at 243 for nine on the fifth day of the second and final test on Tuesday. | 1 |
Strawberry And Boggs Are On Hall Ballot Wade Boggs, a five-time American League batting champion, and Darryl Strawberry, an eight-time All-Star, are among 12 players who will appear on the Hall of Fame ballot for the first time. | 1 |
Pacers Won #39;t Comply With Police Request The Indiana Pacers have told law enforcement officials in Michigan that Pacers players will not submit to interviews as part of the investigation into the brawl that | 1 |
Myanmar #39;s PM quot;yet to confirm quot; Suu Kyi #39;s extended detention VIENTIANE : Myanmar Prime Minister Soe Win could not confirm reports that his government had extended democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi #39;s period of house arrest by a year, Thailand #39;s prime minister said. | 0 |
Bhopal Victims Not Fully Paid, Rights Group Says Almost 20 years after the world #39;s worst industrial disaster, a gas leak from a Union Carbide pesticide factory in Bhopal that immediately killed 7,000 people and | 0 |
Pacers Won't Comply With Police Request The Indiana Pacers have told law enforcement officials in Michigan that players will not submit to interviews as part of the investigation into the Nov. 19 brawl. | 1 |
Update 1: Ex-Disney Director Testifies About Eisner A former Walt Disney Co. director testified Monday that Disney chief executive Michael Eisner told her in a December 1996 telephone conversation that then-Disney President Michael Ovitz was being fired and was eligible for a large severance package. | 2 |
Hollywood Steps Into Video Format Fight (AP) AP - Three top Hollywood studios are throwing their considerable weight behind one of two competing formats for the next generation of DVDs, citing in part the need to stem piracy. | 3 |
Online Retailers See Thanksgiving Surge (AP) AP - Computer-savvy consumers did plenty of online shopping over the Thanksgiving weekend, giving companies like Amazon.com and walmart.com the same kickoff to the holiday season as department stores and malls had. | 3 |
Industry Claims Kazaa Copyright Pirate An Australian federal court has been told that Sharman Networks, the developer of file swapping technology Kazaa, is the largest music piracy system ever seen. | 3 |
Mexico's Fox Vows Justice in Mob Slayings (AP) AP - President Vicente Fox on Monday promised the relatives of a federal police officer burned alive by an angry mob that he would ensure those responsible for the killing are punished and that police authorities who failed to come to his aid would be investigated. | 0 |
AUSTRALIA CLOSE TO VICTORY Australia need just one wicket to claim victory over New Zealand in the second Test in Adelaide. The tourists had lunch on day five on 243 for nine, chasing 464 to win - a Test record for a team batting last | 1 |
Honda's Minimoto Maxii Tops Kids' Wish Lists-Yahoo (Reuters) Reuters - Video games are so last\Christmas. This year, kids want wheels. | 3 |
Asean abandons move to censure Burma over human rights abuses South-east Asian govern-ments yesterday abandoned attempts to censure Burma publicly for its human rights abuses, with officials admitting in private that they | 0 |
Paisley appears ready to compromise to secure place in history Ian Paisley has made a career out of obstructing efforts to find a political accommodation between Northern Ireland #39;s warring communities. | 0 |
Dalai Lama arrives in Southern Russian Buddhist Republic Tibetan spiritual leader the Dalai Lama arrived in Elista, the capital of south Russian Buddhist region of Kalmykia, on his first trip to Russia, which Moscow terms as a #39;pastoral visit #39;. | 0 |
'Skulls' Mobile Security Threat Seen Low-McAfee (Reuters) Reuters - A computer program known as\"Skulls" with potentially destructive capability aimed at\advanced mobile devices was seen as a low threat because it had\not targeted consumers, security software maker McAfee Inc.\said on Monday. | 3 |
IBM And Chip Partners Take Aim At Intel (Investor's Business Daily) Investor's Business Daily - IBM revealed on Monday some milestones in its march to roll out a powerful new chip for consumer devices next year, a product that promises to heat up its rivalry with No. 1 chipmaker Intel. | 3 |
Booming China Awash in 'Out of Control' Acid Rain (Reuters) Reuters - China's explosive economic growth is\outpacing environmental protection efforts, leaving the country\awash in "out of control" acid rain, the China Daily said\Tuesday. | 3 |
Project Aims to Develop Hydrogen Power (AP) AP - A government laboratory and a private company announced a #36;2.6 million project Monday to develop hydrogen in a nuclear reactor using a process with the potential to one day trim the country's reliance on fossil fuels. | 3 |
Witness Deferred to Eisner on Ovitz Firing A former director of the Walt Disney Company, Richard A. Nunis, testified Monday that he deferred to the decision of Michael D. Eisner, the chief | 2 |
US-based Stanley Works buying two security companies Stanley Works has 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 |
Halliburton says court approves insurance accords Halliburton Co. (HAL.N: Quote, Profile, Research) said on Monday a bankruptcy judge approved the final insurance settlement agreements between Halliburton subsidiaries and insurance carriers. | 2 |
Canadian Inventor Lets Everyone Be an Armchair Spy New Internet-based technology could soon turn regular computer users into armchair spies, a Canadian inventor said on Monday. Vincent Tao, an engineer at Toronto #39;s York | 3 |
Setback for Microsoft as Beijing scraps deal Beijing #39;s city government has cancelled a controversial purchase of Rmb29m (\$3.5m, 2.6m, 1.8m) of software from Microsoft after local rivals complained about the way the deal was handled. | 3 |
Game Recreates JFK #39;s Assassination NEW YORK - Just in time for Monday #39;s 41st anniversary of President John F. Kennedy #39;s assassination, a tasteless Internet game is being launched that lets players be Lee Harvey Oswald. | 3 |
Monday #39;s Top 25 Capsules John Lucas scored 24 points to lead No. 6 Oklahoma State to a 76-57 victory over SMU on Monday night. Oklahoma State coach Eddie Sutton won for the 759th time, tying Ed Diddle for eighth place on the Division I career list. | 1 |
Rison Given Option for Release Former Pro Bowl receiver Andre Rison was given the option of paying \$10,000 to get out of jail after spending almost a month locked up for failing to pay child support. | 1 |
China Agonizes as Hope Vanishes for Missing Miners Investigators have determined that back-to-back coal-dust and gas blasts ripped through a mine in northern China killing at least 50 workers and leaving more than 110 trapped and feared dead, said reports on Tuesday. | 0 |
Burma Extends Suu Kyi #39;s Detention Burma #39;s ruling military junta has placed Aung San Suu Kyi, the country #39;s charismatic opposition leader, under an additional year of house arrest, dashing hopes | 0 |
Shouldering a Giant Load Giants rookie quarterback Eli Manning will take an 0-2 record as a pro starter into Sunday's game against the Redskins at FedEx Field. | 1 |
'Skulls' Mobile Security Threat Seen Low-McAfee SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - A computer program known as "Skulls" with potentially destructive capability aimed at advanced mobile devices was seen as a low threat because it had not targeted consumers, security software maker McAfee Inc. said on Monday. | 3 |
Hot Stove Warms D.C. With the Redskins sputtering through another disappointing season, the area can now enjoy a new diversion: offseason baseball maneuvering. | 1 |
Cricket: Australia finish off NZ Australia secure a 213-run win to seal a 2-0 Test series win over New Zealand. | 0 |
Still Waiting on a Bowl The Peach Bowl has released Virgnia from consideration, and is expected to announce that it will invite the loser of Saturday's Miami-Virginia Tech game to play Florida on New Year's Day. | 1 |
Sony Takes on iPod with New Hard Disk Walkman AMSTERDAM (Reuters) - Sony Corp <A HREF="http://www.reuters.co.uk/financeQuoteLookup.jhtml?ticker=6758.T qtype=sym infotype=info qcat=news">6758.T</A> unveiled its first MP3-compatible, hard disk Walkman music player on Tuesday in an attempt to recover ground lost to Apple Computer's <A HREF="http://www.reuters.co.uk/financeQuoteLookup.jhtml?ticker=AAPL.O qtype=sym infotype=info qcat=news">AAPL.O</A> iPod. | 3 |
The Latest BCS Drama The real drama of the latest BCS standings -- the last before the final rankings are issued Sunday -- was the razor-thin margin separating No. 4 California and No. 5 Texas. | 1 |
Canadian Inventor Lets Everyone Be an Armchair Spy TORONTO (Reuters) - New Internet-based technology could soon turn regular computer users into armchair spies, a Canadian inventor said on Monday. | 3 |
Hughes Scores Huge Wizards guard Larry Hughes is on pace to finish with career-highs in all major categories, keying the Wizards' early-season success. | 1 |
Goals Still in View The Ravens are focusing on the positives following a 24-3 loss to the Patriots. Baltimore is still in playoff position and faces two losing teams in the next two weeks. | 1 |
Toshiba Wins HD DVD Support from 4 in Hollywood TOKYO (Reuters) - Toshiba Corp. on Monday said it had won support for the HD DVD optical disc standard from four Hollywood studios, advancing its cause in the battle for the next-generation DVD. | 3 |
Wolfpack Edge Purdue Julius Hodge scores 22 points to lead No. 16 North Carolina State past Purdue, 60-53, Monday night in Raleigh. The Wolfpack improve to 5-0 with the victory. | 1 |
Lawyers Not Close Lawyers on both sides of Atlanta's Dany Heatley's vehicular homicide case said Monday they are not close to agreeing on a plea deal that would keep his case from going before a jury. | 1 |
Bradley in Trouble Again Dodgers outfielder Milton Bradley is charged with disorderly conduct after interfering with a traffic stop near Akron, Ohio. | 1 |
Celtics Snap Skid Boston coach Doc Rivers gets a measure of revenge on his old squad as the Celtics beat the Magic, 117-101, Monday night for their first win in five games. | 1 |
States' Rights Defense Falters in Medical Marijuana Case Justices expressed little inclination to view drug policy as an issue by which states can displace regulation of homegrown marijuana. | 0 |
U.S. Officials Build a Powerful Partnership in Iraq Much of the U.S. strategy in Iraq has become balancing a military campaign with diplomatic maneuvering and economic assistance. | 0 |
Satellite Failure May Jeopardize Intelsat Deal Commercial satellite operator Intelsat Ltd. lost use of one of its satellites Sunday -- a mishap that left some Internet customers without service and could thwart a proposed \$5 billion deal to sell the company to a group of four venture capital firms. <FONT face="verdana,MS Sans Serif,arial,helvetica" size="-2" color="#666666"><B>-The Washington Post</b></font> | 3 |
Sundance Opens Competition to Foreign Films <p></p><p> By Bob Tourtellotte</p><p> LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - The Sundance Film Festival, thepremier U.S. showcase for independent cinema, named the filmson Monday that will compete at its 2005 festival in January,including documentaries energy company Enron and Peru'sfugitive president, Alberto Fujimori.</p> | 0 |
New File System Constrains Treo 650 Storage Capacity PalmOne will offer a free memory card to address the problem. | 3 |
Sony, IBM, and Toshiba Reveal Additional Details on Cell Chip Initial versions of PlayStation 3 chip will not be produced with a cutting-edge chip-making technology. | 3 |
IBM, Sony and Toshiba Unveil Cell Processor IBM, Sony and Toshiba unveiled some of the key concepts of their jointly developed advanced microprocessor, code-named Cell, which is aimed at next-generation computing applications and digital consumer electronics. | 3 |
Australia Beats New Zealand, Seals Sweep of Test Cricket Wins Australia beat New Zealand by 213 runs in the second cricket Test at Adelaide to clinch a 2-0 series victory and complete a winning record against all nine teams at the sport #39;s elite level. | 1 |
Hip-Hop's New World to Conquer: Your Phone At the top of Billboard magazine's Hot Ringtones chart: Snoop Dogg and Pharrell's "Drop It Like It's Hot." | 3 |
Around the World, With 13 Fuel Tanks and a Single Seat The GlobalFlyer, a single-seat airplane designed to make the first solo, nonstop, unrefueled flight around the world, is a feat of engineering. | 3 |
Four Studios Give Backing to a Format for DVD's Four Hollywood studios announced that they would release films in the group's high-definition DVD format by the end of next year, an advance in the effort to define a new DVD standard. | 3 |
Ad Spending Rises, Particularly on the Net A report on advertising spending showed strong growth across most media in the first nine months of the year, with Internet advertising increasing the most. | 3 |
Judge Dismisses Suit Against Oracle Officers A judge dismissed a lawsuit against two officers of the Oracle Corporation that accused them of insider trading before the company announced an earnings shortfall in 2001. | 3 |
NTT DoCoMo, Mm02 Sign Deal Japan #39;s top cell phone operator NTT DoCoMo Inc. and major British mobile carrier mm02 plc reached an agreement that will allow mobile telephone users in Britain, Germany, and Ireland to surf the Internet on the handsets, DoCoMo said Tuesday. | 3 |
Now everyone can spy TORONTO: New internet-based technology could soon turn regular computer users into armchair spies, a Canadian inventor says. Vincent Tao, an engineer at Toronto #39;s York University said he has invented a mapping | 3 |
Skulls program carries Cabir worm into phones Virus writers have unleashed a second version of the quot;Skulls quot; Trojan horse and packaged it with a cell phone virus, a security company has warned. | 3 |
Plucky tail can #39;t save Kiwis Australia finished off a clinical 213-run win over New Zealand just after lunch Tuesday on the fifth day of the second cricket test to secure a series sweep. | 1 |
Police Say They #39;ve Identified Man Who Threw Chair in Pistons <b>...</b> Police in Auburn Hills, Mich., believe they know the identity of the man who threw a chair in a brawl between players and fans during the Pacers-Pistons game on Nov. 19. | 1 |
USC, Oklahoma Retain Positions Southern California and Oklahoma stayed on course for a clash over college football #39;s national title at the Jan. 4 Orange Bowl yesterday after putting more distance between their respective No. | 1 |
QB Shuffle For Cards And Bears Two games after abruptly benching Josh McCown in favor of Shaun King, Green announced yesterday that John Navarre, a rookie from the University of Michigan, will start Sunday #39;s game at Detroit. | 1 |
India ; 20 years on, Bhopal #39;s gas tragedy continues India News, Bhopal, That cold night 20 years ago in this capital of the central Indian state of Madhya Pradesh changed Chiraunji Bai #39;s life forever, just as it did for tens of thousands of others. | 0 |
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