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Argentina can wait, says IMF The IMF has said it will negotiate with Argentina after the country's debt swap, that was delayed until 17 January. | 2 |
Nokia loses top network executive Finnish mobile giant Nokia is losing the head of its networks division, the second senior executive to leave the unit in two weeks. | 2 |
Halifax predicts house-price fall The Halifax bank, Britain's biggest mortgage lender, predicts a much-feared fall in the rampant UK property market. | 2 |
Eurozone retail sales rise 0.7 percent in October (AFP) AFP - Eurozone retail sales rose 0.7 percent in October from September but were down 0.2 percent compared with October 2003, the European statistics agency Eurostat reported. | 2 |
Mervyn #39;s reverses ban on kettles Bells will be ringing at Mervyn #39;s department stores this holiday season after all, store officials announced Thursday in a sudden reversal of a ban on Salvation Army collection kettles. | 2 |
SEC names Pepsi executives in fraud lawsuit A Michigan-based executive for PepsiCo Inc. of Purchase and two former executives of PepsiCo #39;s Frito-Lay division were sued by federal regulators yesterday for allegedly helping Kmart falsify its earnings. | 2 |
Report: Bonds Admitted to Using Substances (AP) AP - Baseball player Barry Bonds told a federal grand jury that he used a clear substance and a cream given to him by a trainer who was indicted in a steroid-distribution ring but denied knowing they were steroids, according to a report published Friday. | 1 |
Serb War Crimes Suspect Surrenders -- Del Ponte (Reuters) Reuters - A Serb officer indicted for war crimes\in the siege of Sarajevo during the 1992-95 Bosnian war was on\his way to the U.N. war crimes tribunal in The Hague on Friday,\chief prosecutor Carla Del Ponte said. | 0 |
4 execs to plead guilty Four executives at Infineon Technologies AG, one of the world #39;s largest makers of memory chips, have agreed to plead guilty to criminal charges of price fixing in federal court, authorities said Thursday. | 3 |
Broadband challenges TV viewing The number of Europeans with broadband has exploded over the past 12 months, with the web eating into TV viewing habits, research suggests. | 3 |
Halo 2 global sales pass five million units Microsoft has released a swathe of new figures related to Bungie #39;s Xbox opus, Halo 2, revealing that the title has now sold over five million units worldwide and become the most popular game in the history of Xbox Live. | 3 |
Decision on Collins next week A decision on the fate of sprinter Michelle Collins will be decided Dec. 10 by a three-person arbitration panel of the American Arbitration Association meeting in San Francisco. | 1 |
Cleveland cruises to easy victory If Carmelo Anthony searched for a silver lining Thursday - and he could have used one - it was that the late start to the Nuggets #39; 92-73 loss to the Cleveland Cavaliers forced Denver television viewers to choose between the game and the late local | 1 |
Image is everything (USATODAY.com) USATODAY.com - Box sets have always been a sound investment. Now visuals are plumping up the volume. Already a common component of standard CD releases, the bonus DVD is gradually making its way into pop music's grand artifact, the elaborately packaged, multi-CD career retrospective. | 3 |
Head of networks division leaves Nokia (AFP) AFP - The mobile phone giant Nokia said that Sari Baldauf, head of its networks unit and long seen as a possible successor to company chief Jorma Ollila, will leave the group early next year. | 3 |
Agencies Find What They're Looking For (washingtonpost.com) washingtonpost.com - When computer users hunt for information on the Internet, they typically turn to Google or Yahoo. When analysts working for U.S. intelligence look for documents and data stored on computers inside their own agencies, they often turn to software made by a little-known firm from Northern Virginia. | 3 |
BBC story on Dow Chemical responsibility a hoax: report LONDON (CBS.MW) -- A source at the BBC told AFX News that their story alleging that Dow Chemical (DOW) has taken responsibility for the Bhopal disaster is a hoax, and Reuters reported that a spokesman for Dow #39;s Union Carbide denied the report. | 0 |
U.S., China Count Down to Space Cooperation (Reuters) Reuters - Space cooperation between China and the\U.S. may finally be getting off the ground a year after China\put a man in orbit, with the two countries holding their first\talks and planning a series of exchanges. | 3 |
Shawn Fanning's Snocap touts vision of P2P heaven <strong>Analysis</strong> Won't reach it without industry and download-service support | 3 |
Intel sunny about holiday sales Chipmaker Intel boosts its prediction of sales for the final three months of the year to \$9.3-9.5bn. | 3 |
Mobile Phone Cheats Mar S.Korean College Exam SEOUL (Reuters) - Police questioned 350 South Korean students Friday and more were under suspicion in a widening probe into cheating that has uncovered a link between two national obsessions -- education and mobile phones. | 3 |
Mission cleared for Titan plunge The Huygens probe is on target and all set for its encounter with Titan, the mysterious large moon of Saturn. | 3 |
Closures 'could benefit chemistry' The UK might be "better off" with fewer - but larger and better-funded - chemistry departments, a leading academic says. | 3 |
Retail sales sluggish as holiday season opens The nations retailers had a disappointing start to the holiday season, reporting sluggish sales for November after a surge in Thanksgiving weekend business failed to materialize. | 2 |
Microsoft Sues Spammers Microsoft announced today that is filing 7 lawsuits against spammers for failing to label sexually explicit messages. The lawsuits were filed in Washington State Superior Court, alleging that defendants violated | 3 |
India, Russia sign joint declaration Indian and Russia signed Friday a Joint Declaration emphasizing strategic partnership between the two countries and taking note of the transformation in the global environment in recent years. | 3 |
India-Russia sign joint declaration, accords New Delhi: India and Russia on Friday gave a new thrust to their relations when they signed a joint declaration and eleven agreements and memorandums of understanding (MOUs) to strengthen bilateral cooperation in banking, energy, space exploration | 0 |
Cuba frees another jailed dissident The Cuban government freed another jailed opponent yesterday, the sixth dissident released this week in a move widely seen as an attempt to repair relations with the European Union. | 0 |
The Playlist: Sony and MP3, Together at Last The consumer electronics giant is finally ready to build MP3 players that play MP3s. What does that mean to the industry? | 3 |
Man Pleads Guilty in Tsunami Death E-Mail Case (Reuters) Reuters - A British man admitted Monday to sending\hoax emails to friends and relatives of people missing since\the Asian tsunami. | 0 |
Army Wages War on Modern Menaces New ways of protecting U.S. troops from RPGs, biological weapons and more take center stage at a military science conference. There's even a morphine substitute that emerged from the rave scene. Noah Shachtman reports from Orlando, Florida. | 3 |
How Long Is Your Digital Trail? Relationships in the information age work best when you exercise restraint and courtesy. Especially after you break up. Commentary by Regina Lynn. | 3 |
Daggers Sharp but Not Penetrating You're unlikely to find a martial arts movie as beautiful as Zhang Yimou's House of Flying Daggers, but you'll need to look elsewhere for passion. By Jason Silverman. | 3 |
Flaws Don't Scuttle Pirate Game Pirates, the latest release by game developer Sid Meier, offers plenty of addictive play for those who want to virtually pillage the Caribbean. But repetitiveness and design flaws dampen the experience. Game review by Suneel Ratan. | 3 |
Wired Tools 2004 The coolest geek shopping list ever: 129 of the best screens, cams, phones, games and gadgets of the year, from Wired magazine. | 3 |
Not Tonight, I've Got an Advisory The FDA probably will not approve a patch for women suffering from hypoactive sexual desire disorder, as an advisory board believes more evidence is needed to prove the drug is safe. By Kristen Philipkoski. | 3 |
Fight for Public Domain Goes On Archivists who want to digitize 'orphan works' -- books, movies and films that are no longer commercially viable but remain under copyright -- lose a court battle. But they vow to continue the war to rebalance copyright law. By Katie Dean. | 3 |
Stocks Seen Higher Before Jobs Data NEW YORK (Reuters) - U.S. stock futures surged Friday morning on the back of Intel Corp.'s <A HREF="http://www.investor.reuters.com/FullQuote.aspx?ticker=INTC.O target=/stocks/quickinfo/fullquote">INTC.O</A> raised quarterly sales forecast and lower oil prices, but strategists said the market's early direction would be dictated by the monthly employment data due out before the start of trading. | 2 |
Apple iTunes 'overcharging in UK' The Office of Fair Trading refers Apple's iTunes service to the European Commission on the grounds that it over-charges UK customers. | 2 |
BT takes control of Italy venture BT Group buys out its partners in loss-making Italian telecoms firm Albacom, as it continues its expansion into business services. | 2 |
Unions in plea to Jaguar bosses Unions are locked in talks with Jaguar bosses in the hope of persuading them not to stop car production at the Browns Lane factory in Coventry. | 2 |
Oil Still Smarting from \$6 Rout Battered oil prices stayed weak on Friday after a \$6 slump spurred by easing worries about winter supplies. US crude oil futures (CLc1: Quote, Profile, Research) fell five cents to \$43.20 | 2 |
Ex-Rebel Leader Set to Become Kosovo PM (AP) AP - The former rebel leader who was set to become Kosovo's new prime minister on Friday was recently interviewed by U.N. war crimes investigators, raising fears among some western officials that he could be indicted for his role in the 1998-99 war in former Yugoslavia. | 0 |
Slow Pace in Iraq Surprises NATO Commander (AP) AP - NATO commander Gen. James Jones on Friday expressed surprise at the slow pace of restoring security to Iraq, saying he had believed the insurgency here would have been brought under control faster than in Afghanistan. | 0 |
Dow says no basis in BBC Bhopal report (Reuters) Reuters - Dow Chemical Co said on Friday that there was no basis whatsoever in a BBC World report saying that it had accepted responsibility for India's Bhopal disaster. | 0 |
Mission cleared for Titan plunge The Huygens probe is on target and all set for its encounter with Titan, the mysterious large moon of Saturn. The 2.7m-wide robot lab has passed its final systems check-out and scientists | 3 |
Petit may provide Arsenal with stop-gap solution - Wenger Arsenal may consider signing French midfielder Emmanuel Petit as a stop-gap solution to their midfield injury problems, manager Arsene Wenger says. | 1 |
NBA Star Shows Up In Baltimore #39;Snitching #39; DVD DENVER -- Denver Nuggets star and Baltimore native Carmelo Anthony said he doesn #39;t remember a conversation that has showed up on a homemade DVD. | 1 |
Dow to Sell Stake in Venture to DuPont (Reuters) Reuters - Dow Chemical Co. on Monday\said DuPont Co. will buy its remaining equity stake in\DuPont Dow Elastomers LLC, a 50/50 joint venture between the\two companies, for #36;87 million. | 2 |
Storms leave more than 600 dead in Philippines REAL, Philippines - Flash floods and landslides triggered by back-to-back storms that lashed the northeastern Philippines had killed more than 600 people by Friday, with nearly 400 still missing, military officials said. | 0 |
NTL banks on deal to sell masts for 1.27bn NTL, Britains largest cable firm, has struck an agreement with a consortium led by one of Australias top banks to sell its network of masts for 1.27 billion. | 2 |
W amp;D brews up takeover WOLVERHAMPTON amp; Dudley, Britains biggest regional brewer, said it was buying another beer-making company in a 119 million swoop as it posted improved profits for the year. | 2 |
Water once present on Mars Evidence from the Mars exploration rovers Spirit and Opportunity has led scientists to suggest that water was once present in large quantities on the red planet. | 3 |
Mr World Wide Web gets new job THE INVENTOR of the World Wide Web has got a job as a professor at the University of Southampton. That #39;s according to the This is Southampton web site, which said Sir Tim Berners-Lee will become chair of computer | 3 |
India to enjoy cut-price Windows Microsoft has confirmed that it is to start selling its cut-down, wallet-friendly, version of Windows in India, Indonesia, Malaysia and Russia. | 3 |
Fuming Fergie demands FA clear up disciplinary confusion MANCHESTER (AFP) - Fuming Manchester United boss Sir Alex Ferguson has demanded that the Football Association clarify their disciplinary guidelines. | 1 |
Jimenez two clear in Hong Kong Hong Kong (Sports Network) - Miguel Angel Jimenez fired a six-under 64 Friday to surge into the lead after the second round of the Omega Hong Kong Open. | 1 |
NHL season hinges on new talks By next Friday we should have a good idea as to whether the NHL will play this year or if we are to see the entire season lost. On Thursday the players association invited the NHL to meet next week for a bargaining session. | 1 |
Security Council debate Rwanda-Congo The UN Security Council has met to discuss the alleged incursion of Rwandan troops into neighbouring Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC). | 0 |
China Aviation inquiry launched Singapore police launch a criminal investigation into the \$550m trading scandal surrounding collapsed jet fuel supplier China Aviation Oil. | 2 |
Mitsubishi gets pledge of support Japan's second-largest bank says it is committed to supporting struggling Mitsubishi Motors, despite denying it is preparing 100bn yen of fresh investment | 2 |
Stocks Seen Higher Before Jobs Data NEW YORK (Reuters) - U.S. stock futures surged Friday morning on the back of Intel Corp.'s raised quarterly sales forecast and lower oil prices, but strategists said the market's early direction would be dictated by the monthly employment data due out before the start of trading. | 2 |
Update 2: CalPERS Ousts Harrigan As Its President The nation #39;s largest public pension fund fired its president Wednesday following a tumultuous year in which he became an outspoken advocate for reform in the board rooms of corporate America. | 2 |
Alcan in Talks to Sell Greek Firm Stake Canadian aluminum producing giant Alcan Inc. said Friday that it is in exclusive talks to sell the company #39;s stake in Aluminium de Grece SA to metals company Mytilineos Holdings SA of Greece. | 2 |
Nowitzki's 53 Overshadows LeBron-Carmelo (AP) AP - Dirk Nowitzki scored 53 points #151; the most ever by a Dallas player and tops in the NBA this season #151; and was just as dominant in other parts of his game, carrying the Mavericks past the Houston Rockets 113-106 in overtime Thursday night. | 1 |
Toledo Beats Miami (Ohio) to Win MAC Title (AP) AP - Bruce Gradkowski threw three of his four touchdown passes to Lance Moore, leading Toledo to a 35-27 win over Miami (Ohio) in the Mid-American Conference championship game Thursday night. | 1 |
Nortel wins US\$5M contract for BT 10,000-worker virtual call <b>...</b> LONDON (CP) - BT Group PLC has awarded a contract worth \$5 million US to Nortel Networks for voice-over-Internet technology designed to link almost 10,000 agents into a so-called virtual contact centre. | 3 |
FOOTBALL: REDS ARE SAVED BY THE BELL SIR ALEX FERGUSON was delighted to see Manchester United book a Carling Cup semi-final crack at Chelsea with a rapid-fire strike and no off-field dramas. | 1 |
Valley resident tied for 20th DAYTONA BEACH, Fla. -- Caryn Wilson of Rancho Mirage shot a 1-under-par 71 on Thursday and was tied for 20th place after two rounds of the LPGA Tour Qualifying School. | 1 |
IOC chief calls on bidding cities stop quot;Bickering quot; Jacques Rogge, President of the International Olympic Committee, has called for an end to the quot;bickering quot; between the five cities seeking to host the 2012 Games. | 1 |
Wenger ready to make Petit a Gunner again LONDON (AFP) - Arsenal are on the verge of handing former Highbury favourite Emmanuel Petit a short-term contract as Arsene Wenger bids to shore up the Gunners crumbling defence of their Premiership title. | 1 |
Official: Tevez To Corinthians Goal.com had revealed earlier this week that the deal bringing Boca Juniors super-striker Tevez to Corinthians would be sealed by today, and this is precisely what happened. | 1 |
Sharon to seek rival Labor #39;s aid on Gaza plan Fresh from a painful parliamentary defeat, Prime Minister Ariel Sharon of Israel said yesterday he will turn to his old rivals in the Labor | 0 |
China Landslide Leaves 65 Villagers Missing - Xinhua A landslide destroyed 25 village houses in the southwestern Chinese province of Guizhou on Friday and 65 villagers, asleep at the time, were missing, Xinhua news agency said. | 0 |
India, Pak to reopen 2nd rail link ISLAMABAD: India and Pakistan on Friday agreed to begin the train service between Munnabao in Rajasthan and Kokhrapar in Pakistan #39;s Sindh province and lay down necessary infrastructure, but failed to reach an understanding on the time schedule to start | 0 |
New EU finance chief slams call for budget cut (AFP) AFP - The EU's new budget chief criticised calls by the bloc's richest states to limit EU spending to one percent of gross national income (GNI), saying it would not amount to a freeze but a big funding cut. | 2 |
Turkey Policy on Minorities Spark Debate (AP) AP - A furor in Turkey ignited by the title of a Christian spiritual leader on a U.S. embassy invitation has underscored concerns about the largely Muslim country's treatment of minorities two weeks before the European Union decides whether to open membership talks with Ankara. | 0 |
Baghdad's Airport Road Symbol of U.S. Frustration BAGHDAD (Reuters) - As U.S. forces bore down on Baghdad in April last year, the first objective they took before the assault on the capital itself was the airport. | 0 |
Ex-Adviser Sees Rare Opportunity On Mideast Front R obert Malley , a former assistant to President Bill Clinton who rejects blaming only Yasser Arafat for the collapse of peace efforts four years ago, warns that a rare window of opportunity for engaging both sides "is not going to be eternally open." | 0 |
Colombia to Free Rebels in Hostage Gesture <p></p><p> BOGOTA, Colombia (Reuters) - Colombia on Thursday said itwould pardon 23 jailed rebels to encourage Marxist guerrillasto free 72 hostages, including three Americans.</p> | 0 |
Documents Show CIA Knew of Venezuela Coup The U.S. Central Intelligence Agency knew dissident military officers were planning a coup in 2002 against Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez, according to purported U.S. intelligence documents posted on the Internet. | 0 |
CIA Documents: U.S. Knew of Venezuela Coup The U.S. Central Intelligence Agency knew dissident military officers were planning a coup in 2002 against Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez, according to purported U.S. intelligence documents posted on the Internet. | 0 |
Dollar Set for Weekly Gains Against Euro, Yen Before Job Report The dollar headed for its first weekly gain in more than two months against the yen and halted a seven- week slide versus the euro before a government report expected to show US employers hired 200,000 workers last month. | 2 |
Norilsk votes against IAMGOLD deal announced in a statement that, in accordance with its previously stated intentions, it had voted against the proposed IAMGOLD merger. | 2 |
Dan Walters: Melodramatic spin aside, Harrigan #39;s CalPERS ouster <b>...</b> Bee Columnist. Sean Harrigan and his acolytes are spinning a melodramatic tale about his ouster from the governing board of the huge California Public Employees #39; Retirement System - that he | 2 |
Report: IBM Exiting PC Business IBM (IBM:NYSE - news - research) is reportedly ready to exit the PC business, having long lost its dominance in the arena. The report said Lenovo Group, China #39;s top PC company, is among the interested bidders. | 2 |
Former Executives Settle SEC Civil Charges in Kmart Fraud AccountingWEB.com - December 03, 2004 - Five former executives from Kmart and its vendor companies settled Securities and Exchange Commission civil charges this week stemming from a \$24 million accounting fraud they oversaw at the retail giant, the | 2 |
Halifax forecasts 2 house price drop Banking giant Halifax today said that house prices would fall by 2 fall next year and that interest rates had peaked. Its negative outlook for the property market is in contrast to the 2 rise predicted by | 2 |
Report: Bonds Admitted to Using Substances (AP) AP - Baseball star Barry Bonds testified to a grand jury that he used a clear substance and a cream given to him by a trainer who was indicted in a steroid-distribution ring, but said he didn't know they were steroids, the San Francisco Chronicle reported Friday. | 1 |
BBC Says Deceived by Dow Impersonator on Bhopal (Reuters) Reuters - BBC World said on Friday it was duped in\an "elaborate deception" by a man who claimed to be a Dow\Chemical Co. spokesman and said in an interview the U.S.\company accepted responsibility for India's Bhopal disaster. | 0 |
Napster creator reveals next step Napster creator Shawn Fanning has spoken publicly about his new project - a licensed file-sharing service with an almost unlimited selection of tracks. | 3 |
Young Christian Pastors Fight Porn Youth ministers Mike Foster, left, and Craig Gross say they don #39;t want teens to get sucked into the world of online porm. (ABCNEWS. | 3 |
BT switches its call centre network to VoIP BT plans to migrate its UK call centres to a new VoIP (voice over Internet Protocol) system over the next two years, allowing around 9,700 call centre agents on 124 sites to work as one team in a single, virtual, customer contact centre. | 3 |
Players feel they have solution Toronto Sun. They #39;re whistling a new tune in the lockout trenches, not quite the Hockey Night In Canada theme, but more pleasant to the ears than three months of bombast. | 1 |
Kenya MPs rebel over constitution Some 80 Kenyan MPs storm out of parliament in the latest twist in a row over a new constitution. | 0 |
Japan sounds alarm on birth rate \The Japanese government says urgent policy changes are needed to reverse the country's population decline. | 0 |
Intel upgrades sales forecast After putting a dreary October spin on its prospects for the final three months of the year, Intel allowed Thursday that Christmas may come to techdom after all. | 2 |
Brown defends budget optimism British Chancellor Gordon Brown has denied he was overly optimistic about the state of the British economy in Thursday #39;s pre-budget report. | 2 |
Report: IBM #39;s PC business up for sale IBM Corp. has put its PC business up for sale, according to a story published on Friday on the Web site of The New York Times. IBM is discussing selling the business to | 2 |
US, China Count Down to Space Cooperation Space cooperation between China and the US may finally be getting off the ground a year after China put a man in orbit, with the two countries holding their first talks and planning a series of exchanges. | 3 |
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