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Baseball legend Bonds testifies using BALCO substances: report SAN FRANCISCO (AFP) - Baseball star slugger Barry Bonds told a grand jury that he used a clear substance and cream from a firm embroiled in a doping scandal, but never thought they were steroids, the San Francisco Chronicle reported. | 1 |
\$12bn hoax #39;cruel #39; Bhopal - A hoax played on the BBC that US giant Dow Chemical was to pay \$12bn to those maimed in the world #39;s worst industrial disaster was slammed Friday as quot;cruel quot; in this city where thousands died. | 0 |
Insurgents claim responsibility for Baghdad raid MAXINE McKEW: In Iraq, the group led by the country #39;s most wanted insurgent has claimed responsibility for a deadly attack on a police station in western Baghdad. | 0 |
Stocks Seen Opening Higher, Data Awaited (Reuters) Reuters - U.S. stock futures rose on Friday,\spurred by lower oil prices and Intel Corp.'s higher\sales forecast as Wall Street waited for monthly employment\data for clues about the economy's health. | 2 |
Dollar Holds Above Lows as Data Looms LONDON (Reuters) - The dollar drifted near recent record lows against the euro and five-year lows against the yen on Friday ahead of key U.S. jobs figures. | 2 |
Stocks Seen Opening Higher, Data Awaited NEW YORK (Reuters) - U.S. stock futures rose on Friday, spurred by lower oil prices and Intel Corp.'s <A HREF="http://www.investor.reuters.com/FullQuote.aspx?ticker=INTC.O target=/stocks/quickinfo/fullquote">INTC.O</A> higher sales forecast as Wall Street waited for monthly employment data for clues about the economy's health. | 2 |
IBM Puts PC Unit Up for Sale - NY Times NEW YORK (Reuters) - International Business Machines Corp. has put its personal computing business up for sale in a deal that could be worth as much as \$2 billion, the New York Times reported on Friday. | 2 |
Nov. Job Creation Number Lower Than Expected The Labor Department said Friday that U.S. employers added 112,000 new jobs overall in November as the unemployment rate dropped to 5.4 percent. | 2 |
November Job Growth Unexpectedly Soft (Reuters) Reuters - A surprisingly soft 112,000 new U.S.\jobs were created in November, the Labor Department said on\Friday, casting a shadow across an already downbeat holiday\sales season with consumers apparently worried by scarce work\and high oil prices. | 2 |
Before the Bell: Fifth Third Bancorp Off (Reuters) Reuters - Shares of Fifth Third Bancorp \fell 7.6 percent before the bell on Friday the morning after\the ninth-largest U.S. bank said fourth-quarter profit will\fall well short of analysts' forecasts, | 2 |
Report: IBM selling personal computer unit NEW YORK -- International Business Machines Corp. has reportedly put its personal computer business up for sale in a deal that could fetch as much as \$2 billion and close an era for an industry pioneer which | 2 |
US Dollar Continues Its Broad Decline The US dollar sank anew against other major currencies yesterday, even though Japanese officials publicly raised the prospect of joining with European governments to brake its slide. | 2 |
Jobs report a major letdown US employers pulled back on hiring as they entered the holiday shopping season, adding just 112,000 new jobs overall in November. It was the weakest gain in five months and about half of what economists had forecast. | 2 |
EU Calls for Official to Clarify Position European Union officials on Friday called on the United States to clarify its position on a possible court challenge at the World Trade Organization over alleged unfair subsidies given to European aircraft maker Airbus. | 2 |
Edwards Sees Delay in Answer on Trial Edwards Lifesciences Corp. (EW.N: Quote, Profile, Research) on Friday said it does not expect the US Food and Drug Administration to provide an answer on whether it can conduct a clinical | 2 |
US Air agents agree to pay, benefits cuts ARLINGTON, Va. - The union for 5,800 US Airways Group Inc. customer-service and reservation agents said it reached agreement on pay and benefit cuts the airline had sought to help emerge from bankruptcy. | 2 |
Stocks Set for Firm Start to '05 NEW YORK (Reuters) - Stock futures rose on Monday, pointing to a solid start to the New Year, as oil prices tumbled more than a dollar and Wal-Mart Stores Inc. <A HREF="http://www.investor.reuters.com/FullQuote.aspx?ticker=WMT.N target=/stocks/quickinfo/fullquote">WMT.N</A> brightened its outlook for December sales. | 2 |
Report: IBM Selling Personal Computer Unit (AP) AP - International Business Machines Corp. has reportedly put its personal computer business up for sale in a deal that could fetch as much as #36;2 billion and close an era for an industry pioneer which long ago shifted its focus to more lucrative segments of the computer business. | 3 |
Report: IBM Selling Its PC Business (PC World) PC World - China's largest maker of PCs is one of the potential buyers, newspaper says. | 3 |
Fellowship of the Ring: Customized Cell Tones (washingtonpost.com) washingtonpost.com - Whenever his cell phone rings, which is a lot, Delvon Murray, 18, hears "My Boo," the Alicia Keys-Usher duet. Whenever his girlfriend's cell phone rings, she hears "In Love Wit Chu" from hip-hop artist Da Brat. | 3 |
BALCO Founder Says Marion Jones Used Steroids NEW YORK -- The head of BALCO is saying US Olympian Marion Jones has used performance-enhancing stimulants. BALCO founder Victor Conte has told ABC #39;s quot;20/20 quot; he witnessed the five-time Olympic medalist injecting | 1 |
Moya puts Spain ahead in Davis Cup final Carlos Moya fired Spain into a 1-0 lead over the United States in the Davis Cup final on Friday. Whipping up a record tennis crowd of 27,200, the former world number one bamboozled | 1 |
Heidfeld given another chance to impress Nick Heidfeld has declared himself happy with his first outing for Williams and in fact the team was also so impressed that they #39;ve invited him back for a second trial. | 1 |
RYDER STARS FACING WEEKEND FIGHT Five weeks after Ian Poulter and Sergio Garcia were in a play-off for the Volvo Masters title, three more of Europe #39;s Ryder Cup heroes are battling for victory at the Omega Hong Kong Open. | 1 |
February launch for Red Bull The RB1, the Red Bull Racing teams challenger for the 2005 FIA Formula One World Championship, will be officially unveiled in Spain next February, it has been announced. | 1 |
AWOL drug test stars charged World athletics chiefs yesterday formally charged Greek sprinters Kostas Kenteris and Katerina Thanou with missing drugs tests on the eve of the Olympic Games. | 1 |
Houston Rockets Team Report - December 3 (Sports Network) - The Houston Rockets fell to the Dallas Mavericks in overtime, 113-106, at AmericanAirlines Center on Thursday. Tracy McGrady also had an excellent game, scoring a season-high 48 points on | 1 |
Nitties takes second-round Australian PGA lead Former Australian amateur James Nitties, playing in his fourth professional golf tournament, shot a 7-under-par 65 Friday to take a one-shot lead after two rounds of the Australian PGA. | 1 |
SuperGen Pulls U.S. Cancer Drug Application NEW YORK (Reuters) - SuperGen Inc. on Monday said it has withdrawn an application to market its pancreatic cancer treatment in the United States due to insufficient data, sending its shares down 17 percent. | 2 |
Relief Effort Gains as Aid Is Reaching More Survivors The international lifeline to save five million homeless victims of the Indian Ocean tsunami gathered strength on Sunday. | 0 |
Indonesia presses Burma on Aung San Suu Kyi detention Indonesia has accused Burma of trying to avoid the issue of the ongoing detention of pro-democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi. Burma was asked at an Asia-Pacific summit this week to clarify media reports that | 0 |
Danforth resigns as US ambassador to United Nations (AFP) AFP - The US ambassador to the United Nations, John Danforth, resigned less than six months after becoming the diplomatic face of Washington at the world body, the United States announced. | 0 |
Moya Puts Spain Ahead in Davis Cup Final SEVILLE, Spain (Reuters) - Carlos Moya fired Spain into a 1-0 lead over the United States in the Davis Cup final on Friday. | 1 |
Disease Risk Rise After Philippine Typhoon REAL, Philippines (Reuters) - Flood waters receded in the Philippines on Friday in the wake of a typhoon that killed at least 35 people, but thousands more remained cut off from help, hungry and at risk of disease after a week of severe flooding. | 0 |
BBC Says Deceived by Dow Impersonator on Bhopal LONDON (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 the U.S. company accepted responsibility for India's Bhopal disaster. | 0 |
Steroid Scandal Deepens Published reports say Barry Bonds has testified that he used a clear substance and a cream given to him by a trainer who was indicted in a steroid-distribution ring. | 1 |
Transmeta licenses LongRun 2 to Fujitsu Foundry partner gears up for second-generation 90nm Efficeons | 3 |
Napster creator reveals next step Napster creator Shawn Fanning introduces a new licensed file-sharing service with unlimited choice of tracks. | 3 |
Nokia #39;s market share back above 30 In the three months to September, Nokia gained market share for a second consecutive quarter, helped by price cuts and new handsets. | 2 |
Paul McIntyre: Switkowski carries too much baggage for the markets The prospect of aA\$30 billion (\$32.39) share issue will tend to do that to a board, which dined on Tuesday night at a swish Sydney restaurant without their virus-infused chief executive - he was officially stuck at home with a crook stomach. | 2 |
Job Growth Is Well Below Wall Street Forecasts The economy added 112,000 payroll jobs in November, the Labor Department reported today, far fewer than the month before and not enough to keep up with average increases in the adult population. | 2 |
Edwards sees valve trial delayed Medical device company says FDA not likely to greenlight a clinical trial of heart implant in 2004. CHICAGO (Reuters) - Edwards Lifesciences Corp. | 2 |
It #39;s official: Americans love SUVs NEW YORK (CNN/Money) - Sport/utility vehicle registrations in the United States increased 56 percent in just five years, according to a report released Thursday by the US Census Bureau. | 2 |
UK house prices predicted to fall next year A leading British mortgage lender predicted Friday that house prices in the country will fall two percent next year after nine years of strong gains. | 2 |
Microsoft sues for lewd #39;spam #39; Microsoft Corp. has filed class action lawsuits against vendors of sexually explicit commercial e-mail, the Seattle Post-Intelligence said Friday. | 3 |
Napster #39;s Shawn Fanning Back With New Music Service Napster founder Shawn Fanning is back in the music-downloading game, this time with a legal service that has the blessing of at least some significant members of the music industry. | 3 |
Four Infineon Execs Plead Guilty in DRAM Probe Samsung, Micron Technology and Hynix Semiconductor have acknowledged that they have received subpoenas related to the investigation. | 3 |
Microsoft smitten by the blogging bug!: Technology India: London, Dec 3 :Software giant Microsoft is now ready to take the plunge into the world of blogging by launching a test service to allow people to publish blogs, or online journals, called MSN Spaces. | 3 |
Life could exist below Mars surface, scientist says here Despite four decades of trying and some 40 space probes, the question of whether there #39;s life on Mars remains as elusive as ever. | 3 |
Sun and Microsoft: True love or a marriage of convenience? Microsoft and Sun may be going steady, but they aren #39;t quite sure where the relationship is headed. The companies gave an update on Wednesday to their quot;ongoing dialogue quot; about product interoperability that | 3 |
Nortel picks up \$5m BT call centre contract Nortel has won a \$5m contract from BT to help the telco use Internet Protocol (IP) technology to upgrade its call centres around the UK. | 3 |
HP Revises Cluster Plans HP (Quote, Chart) is dropping its efforts to port some Tru64 Unix products to HP-UX with the help of storage player Veritas . The two companies announced a multi-year agreement Thursday that finds HP #39;s sales | 3 |
Blu-ray read-only format to be finalized early 2005 Companies backing Blu-ray Disc will finalize the read-only version of the optical-disc format early next year, a Sony Corp. spokesman said earlier this week. | 3 |
Sun Drafts New quot;SCO-Sensitive quot; Open Source License Without saying it has anything to do with its avowed determination to open source Solaris 10, Sun has sent over a newfangled open source license to the Open Source Initiative (OSI), the keeper of such things, for its approval. | 3 |
VersaMail for the Treo 600 palmOne has released a modified version of its VersaMail 2.7 e-mail application for the its Treo 600 communicator. Although released last year the Treo 600 did not | 3 |
Marion Jones denies new allegations LONDON (Ticker) - American gold medal-winning sprinter Marion Jones has denied new allegations she has used performance-enhancing drugs. | 1 |
Appleby leads by a stroke in South Africa Stuart Appleby of Australia was the only player to break 70 Friday, shooting a 3-under-par 69 that left him with a one-stroke lead over Lee Westwood of England halfway through the Nedbank Golf Challenge. | 1 |
Rangers #39; Euro Fate Rangers 1-0 loss in AZ Alkmaar was a blow but by no means a disaster as far as their UEFA Cup hopes are concerned. Ibrox manager Alex McLeish knows it is still possible that his side | 1 |
Heidfeld gets a second look Nick Heidfeld will be given a second chance at landing the remaining full time ride at BMW-Williams. Team officials say the German will test with them again next week in Jerez, Spain. | 1 |
Coach of disgraced Greek sprinters claims IAAF charges groundless The coach of disgraced Greek sprinters Kostas Kenteris and Katerina Thanou says IAAF charges against the athletes are groundless and will not result in a suspension, according to reports Friday. | 1 |
#39;I cannot be on the losing side #39; In the clickety-clack of football shoes trudging into the bowels of Giants Stadium, in the blur of blank, numbed West Point faces marching toward the losing locker room, his was the unforgettable face. | 1 |
Players, at charity game, express hope of having season ANN ARBOR, Mich. -- Some NHL players who took part in a charity hockey game at the University of Michigan on Thursday were hopeful the news that the NHL and the players association will resume talks next week | 1 |
Gerrard Stands Up for Anfield Chief Liverpool captain Steven Gerrard today rallied to the defence of beleaguered chairman David Moores by revealing how the Anfield supremos intervention convinced him to snub Chelsea and stay on Merseyside. | 1 |
New blow for Zimbabwe's Moyo Zimbabwe's controversial information minister looks set to be disappointed in his campaign to become an MP. | 0 |
Sudan Agreement Endorsed by US Officials at UN The US Ambassador to the United Nations, John Danforth, says the recently signed peace memorandum between the government of Sudan and the Sudan Peoples Liberation Movement offers the best | 0 |
Germany Thwarts Possible Attack on Iraqi Leader German police arrested three men suspected of planning an attack on Iraqi Prime Minister Ayad Allawi, who was in Berlin on Friday. | 0 |
Storms Kill More Than 650 in Philippines Helicopters delivered food to survivors and picked up casualties Friday as flash floods began to recede in the northern Philippines, revealing the magnitude of a disaster | 0 |
Russian President supports India #39;s UN bid Russian President Vladimir Putin said here on Friday that his country supported India #39;s bid for a permanent UN Security Council seat but stopped short of favoring India #39;s veto power in the world body. | 0 |
India, Pakistan to Reopen Key Rail Link Rivals Pakistan and India have agreed to reopen a key rail link between the two countries that has been closed for almost 40 years. | 0 |
Putin Sends Greeting to War Crimes Convict (AP) AP - Russian President Vladimir Putin issued New Year's greetings Saturday to a former pro-Soviet partisan convicted in Latvia of killing civilians during World War II. | 0 |
Fund Raising by Candidates, Parties (AP) AP - Fund raising and spending in the 2003-04 election cycle by President Bush, Democratic rival John Kerry and national party committees: | 0 |
OPEC Can't Rule Out Oil Production Cuts LONDON (Reuters) - OPEC cannot rule out cutting oil production if oil prices slide further before the producer group meets next Friday, a senior OPEC delegate said on Friday. | 2 |
Stocks Trim Gains; Intel Boosts Techs NEW YORK (Reuters) - U.S. blue chips trimmed gains on Friday after a senior OPEC delegate said the producer group cannot rule out cutting oil production if oil prices slide further and monthly U.S. jobs data showed weaker-than-expected growth. | 2 |
Two More Top Nokia Execs Exit HELSINKI (Reuters) - Nokia <A HREF="http://www.investor.reuters.com/FullQuote.aspx?ticker=NOK1V.HE target=/stocks/quickinfo/fullquote">NOK1V.HE</A> said on Friday the head of its networks unit had resigned and another top networks executive left, in the second major shake-up of top management in two weeks at the world's top mobile phone maker. | 2 |
Need a job? Get a card - arresting ID pitch to business <strong>Analysis</strong> Redefining voluntary again... | 3 |
Germany Says Thwarts Attack on Iraq PM, 3 Arrested BERLIN (Reuters) - German police arrested three Iraqis in a series of raids on Friday and the federal prosecutor said he believed they were planning an attack on visiting Iraqi Prime Minister Iyad Allawi. | 0 |
UK govt takes iTunes gripe to Europe Union trade regulators asked to probe 'one country, single store' policy | 3 |
IBM Puts PC Unit Up for Sale - NY Times NEW YORK (Reuters) - International Business Machines Corp. <A HREF="http://www.investor.reuters.com/FullQuote.aspx?ticker=IBM.N target=/stocks/quickinfo/fullquote">IBM.N</A> has put its personal computing business up for sale in a deal that could be worth as much as \$2 billion, the New York Times reported on Friday. | 2 |
Last Xmas order date for the Antipodes <strong>Cash'n'Carrion</strong> Get 'em in by Sunday | 3 |
India, Russia Agree to Revitalize Traditional Ties NEW DELHI (Reuters) - Cold war allies India and Russia sought on Friday to instill new momentum into their longstanding relationship, tidying up energy and military ties. | 0 |
Dollar Sags on Nov Jobs Disappointment NEW YORK (Reuters) - The dollar fell to within a whisker of record lows against the euro on Friday, after an influential report on the U.S. labor market turned out to be unexpectedly weak. | 2 |
Sony Vaio U70P Wi-Fi micro PC <strong>Preview</strong> Smaller than a laptop, bigger than a PDA - the perfect PC size? | 3 |
Yukos 'fails to halt sell-off' Russian oil giant Yukos has reportedly lost a court case against the sale of its main production unit. | 2 |
US and EU put air dispute on hold Washington and Brussels say they will not escalate a dispute over subsidies to Boeing and Airbus. | 2 |
Virgin wins most Indian flights Virgin Atlantic has won the largest share of 21 additional direct flights between the UK and India, gaining 10 to BA's seven and BMI's four. | 2 |
BBC Says Deceived by Dow Impersonator on Bhopal LONDON (Reuters) - The BBC's international TV news channel apologized on Friday after being duped into airing an interview with a fake Dow Chemical spokesman who said the U.S. company accepted responsibility for India's Bhopal disaster. | 0 |
DS aims to touch gamers Nintendo launches its new handheld console, the DS, which aims to change the way people play games. | 3 |
ND officials take search for a coach to Utah Notre Dame officials hope to be one step closer to obtaining a new football coach after getting to bed a little later than usual Thursday night. | 1 |
Iran says suspension period six months maximum Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani, chairman of Iran #39;s powerful Expediency Council, said on Friday that the maximum duration of Iran #39;s suspension of uranium enrichment activities was six months, the official IRNA news agency reported. | 0 |
Putin arrives in India to cement several pacts NEW DELHI President Vladimir Putin of Russia arrived Friday to hold talks on expanding trade and cooperation in defense, energy and space with India, a longtime ally of the Soviet Union during the cold war. | 0 |
Ukraine court annuls poll result Ukraine's top court annuls the result of the second round of the disputed presidential poll, paving the way for fresh elections. | 0 |
Will IBM sell PC business? p2pnet.net News - IBMs PC business is up for grabs - and the new owners could be Chinese, says the New York Times. While IBM long ago ceded the lead in the personal computer market to Dell and Hewlett | 2 |
Job Growth Is Well Below Wall Street Forecasts The economy added 112,000 payroll jobs in November, the Labor Dept. reported today, far fewer than the month before. | 2 |
Serb general faces Hague tribunal A Bosnian Serb general indicted for war crimes is to be transferred to The Hague, the chief UN war crimes prosecutor says. | 0 |
The Fool's Look Ahead Chips, animated clips, supermarket slips, and dot-com flashback trips will shape the week that lies ahead. | 2 |
Our Holiday Guide to ... Holiday Guides Sorting out which MP3 player is best, how to select a gaming console or making sense of high-tech TVs can become as much a chore as decorating your house for the holidays. Enter the ever-popular tech gadget gift buying guide. <FONT face="verdana,MS Sans Serif,arial,helvetica" size="-2" color="#666666"><B>-washingtonpost.com</B></FONT> | 3 |
A Fool Looks Back Winners lost. Cereals bowled. Online storefronts schooled their offline storefronts yet again. In sum, it was another week of twisted holiday cheer. | 2 |
Five Cities to Make Olympic Presentations (AP) AP - IOC president Jacques Rogge said the five cities bidding for the 2012 Olympics accepted his advice and agreed to stop complaining about each other. | 1 |
Calpers battle on corporate governance may only just be <b>...</b> The ousting of fund president Sean Harrigan from Americas largest pension fund has been viewed by many as the first Republican victory in a battle to undermine the influence of pension funds like Calpers on corporate governance issues. | 2 |
Napster Creator Touts Legal File Sharing Shawn Fanning's Napster software enabled countless music fans to swap songs on the Internet for free, turning him into the recording industry's enemy No. 1 in the process. | 3 |
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