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Bombers target Iraqi security forces BAGHDAD - Two powerful car bombs exploded simultaneously Saturday near Baghdad #39;s most heavily guarded area, killing at least seven police officers and wounding 59 others. | 0 |
Deal May Let Northern Ireland MPs Speak in Republic #39;s Parliament Northern Irelands MPs and MEPs are to be given the chance to take part in debates in the Irish Republics Parliament if a comprehensive peace process deal is struck in the coming week, it was claimed today. | 0 |
Sudan 'considers' Turabi charges Sudan says it will decide next week whether to charge Islamist leader Hassan Turabi over an alleged coup attempt. | 0 |
US officials to question BALCO chief quot;Now Conte has broken his silence, they will be seeking him for further information. The IAAF will follow the situation, quot; he said. | 1 |
The Week in College Football Description: NPR #39;s Michele Norris talks with Wall Street Journal sports reporter Stefan Fatsis about the latest news from the college gridiron. | 1 |
Deliberations Begin in Air India Bomb Trial Nearly two decades after Air India Flight 182 exploded over the Atlantic Ocean killing 329 people, the fate of the two Sikh extremists charged with the bombing is finally in hands of a judge. | 0 |
Napster Founder Heads In New Direction It is a licensed file-sharing service with almost an unlimited selection of tracks that will give record labels a degree of control over file-sharing. | 3 |
ETA Bombs Put Radical Basque Party in Tight Spot (Reuters) Reuters - The armed Basque separatist group ETA\showed it was not a spent force with Friday's coordinated\attacks at five Madrid petrol stations, but it also further\isolated the guerrillas' closest political allies, Batasuna. | 0 |
Russia woos Indian IT firms, call to jointly tap global markets (AFP) AFP - Russia said it wants to emulate India's success in information technology as it wooed Indian firms for joint projects and called on both nations to team up to tap global markets. | 0 |
Irish recruits in holding pattern But Ponder, the head football coach at Rider High School in Wichita Falls, Texas, said Nelson, the star wide receiver who committed to the Irish in July, could be re-thinking his commitment in the wake of Tyrone Willingham #39;s firing. | 1 |
Ambrose wants hat-trick Motorsport crowned a new king in the V8 Supercars last night when Ford #39;s Marcos Ambrose swept to successive championship titles in the final round of the season at Eastern Creek. | 1 |
Indicted Sarajevo Siege General Arrives in Hague (Reuters) Reuters - A Serb general accused of\sniping and shelling against the civilian population of\Sarajevo during the 1992-95 Bosnian war arrived in The Hague on\Friday to face charges of crimes against humanity. | 0 |
Myskina, Safin Win Russia's Top Player Awards MOSCOW (Reuters) - French Open champion Anastasia Myskina has been voted Russia's female player of the year by the panel of tennis journalists, coaches and officials. | 1 |
Bono plans lifelong poverty fight Rock singer Bono pledges to spend the rest of his life trying to eradicate extreme poverty around the world. | 0 |
Ambrose seals V8 title FORD driver Marcos Ambrose today sealed back-to-back V8 Supercar championships with victory in the 100km opening race at the series Grand Finale. | 1 |
MLB owners approve Expos #39; relocation to Washington The owners of Major League Baseball #39;s 30 teams voted almost unanimously today to approve the relocation of the Montreal Expos to Washington, the league reported Dec. 3 on its website. | 1 |
Pakistan, India agree to resume 2nd rail link Pakistan and India agreed Friday to resume the second rail link between the two nations. According to a statement jointly issued by technical teams fromboth sides at the conclusion | 0 |
Boeing Changes Management in Key Division Boeing Co. changed management of its commercial aircraft division yesterday, replacing the head of the sales team after losing several competitions to its European rival Airbus SAS. | 2 |
Shawn Fanning Returns With New Music Service Not quite as strong (or as controversial) as Arnold Schwarzenegger, Shawn Fanning is back -- in the music downloading game, according to MTV News. | 3 |
Chelsea display championship class Chelsea piled the pressure on to their Premiership title rivals with a 4-0 lunchtime demolition of Newcastle. Hustled out of their stride and on the back foot for much of the first half, Chelsea turned on | 1 |
Bush Mum on Pakistan's Bin Laden Efforts (AP) AP - President Bush offered no criticism Saturday of Pakistan's role in the still-unsuccessful hunt for al-Qaida leader Osama bin Laden, even though Pakistan's army is pulling back from the region where the terrorist mastermind is believed hiding. | 0 |
Programs: a Checklist for Tuning Up Your PC (Reuters) Reuters - You change the oil in your car\every 5,000 miles or so. You clean your house every week or\two. Your PC needs regular maintenance as well -- especially if\you're using Windows and you spend a lot of time on the\Internet. | 3 |
Bones Suggest Women Went to War in Ancient Iran (Reuters) Reuters - These days Iranian women are not even\allowed to watch men compete on the football field, but 2,000\years ago they could have been carving the boys to pieces on\the battlefield. | 3 |
Miss Peru wins world beauty title Miss Peru beats off more than 100 beauty contestants to win the Miss World competition in China. | 0 |
Salvation Army gets new leader Maj. George Polarek and Maj. Sharon Polarek didn #39;t have much time to settle in. The Polareks are embarking on their first holiday season as the new area coordinator and associate area coordinator of the Salvation Army Buffalo Area Services. | 2 |
Stocks to Watch Monday INGRAM MICRO INC. <A HREF="http://www.investor.reuters.com/FullQuote.aspx?ticker=IM.N target=/stocks/quickinfo/fullquote">IM.N</A>: | 2 |
Marion mad at dope slur SPRINT queen Marion Jones says she will sue accused steroid peddler Victor Conte over his allegations that she received banned drugs before winning five medals at the Sydney Olympics. | 1 |
Slick Nick on victory trail EIGHT years after his last win. The six-time Major winner fired a bogey-free seven-under-par 65 at the Hong Kong Open to stand in joint-second place after three rounds. | 1 |
Putin denies opposing India #39;s veto power Russian President Vladimir Putin today said that he had been completely misinterpreted by the Indian press. Media reports had claimed that he was opposed to India #39;s right to get veto powers in the UN Security Council. | 0 |
Middle East ; ElBaradei denies charges of collaboration with Iran ElBaradei was reacting to news reports that he had heeded Iranian demands to drop mentions of IAEA requests to visit the Parchin military site and Irans use of the sensitive material beryllium in a report he had made to the IAEA board in September. | 0 |
Dollar Starts 2005 Firm, Awaits U.S. Data LONDON (Reuters) - The dollar started 2005 on a strong note on Monday, gaining more than a cent from last week's record lows against the euro as investor selling paused on expectations of a firm batch of U.S. economic data this week. | 2 |
Lawyers brawl over Pacers-Pistons suspensions New York, December 3 - Two weeks after the fact, lawyers for the NBA and the players #39; union had their own little brawl. Attorneys for the two sides fought before an arbitrator and in federal court Friday, arguing | 1 |
Boston Celtics Team Report - December 4 (Sports Network) - The Boston Celtics picked up a victory on Friday evening against the Toronto Raptors. Mark Blount scored 22 points, Paul Pierce added 20, as the Celtics edged Toronto for a 91-89 victory at the FleetCenter. | 1 |
Indian economy to grow 7.5 percent annually says PM (AFP) AFP - Prime Minister Manmohan Singh said India's economy would grow by 7.5 percent annually over the next decade and could be one of the world's biggest economies in the next generation. | 2 |
Court Orders Milosevic Defense Lawyers to Continue AMSTERDAM (Reuters) - Judges trying Slobodan Milosevic rejected Tuesday a bid by lawyers appointed to defend the former Yugoslav president to withdraw from the case. | 0 |
Spain handed Madrid bomb suspect An Egyptian man suspected of playing a key role in the Madrid train bombings has been handed over to Spain. | 0 |
DaVita Buys U.S. Kidney Clinics for \$3 Bln STOCKHOLM (Reuters) - DaVita Inc. <A HREF="http://www.investor.reuters.com/FullQuote.aspx?ticker=DVA.N target=/stocks/quickinfo/fullquote">DVA.N</A> agreed to buy the U.S. kidney-care clinics of Sweden's Gambro AB <A HREF="http://www.investor.reuters.com/FullQuote.aspx?ticker=GAMBb.ST target=/stocks/quickinfo/fullquote">GAMBb.ST</A> for \$3.05 billion in a deal that would make it the top dialysis services company in the United States. | 2 |
Sprint Upgrades Wireless Network Wireless carrier Sprint has signed contracts with Lucent, Nortel and Motorola for network upgrades, including the development of high-speed Internet services. | 2 |
Colgate-Palmolive announces 4,400 job cuts; plant shutdowns NEW YORK, December 7 (newratings.com) - New York based Colgate-Palmolive (CL.NYS) announced its plans today to cut its total workforce by 12 and close one third of its factories in an attempt to reduce costs and focus on the high-profit areas, such as | 2 |
Update 4: Vivendi, Messier Are Fined \$1.35M Each France #39;s market regulator fined Vivendi Universal SA and its former boss Jean-Marie Messier on Tuesday for deceiving investors with a litany of inaccurate financial communications issued over a two-year period. | 2 |
Black Notre Dame Alumni Question Firing (AP) AP - Some black Notre Dame alumni say the recent firing of football coach Tyrone Willingham will hamper the school's efforts to recruit and retain black students and teachers. | 1 |
Nvidia to provide PlayStation graphics Nvidia, a video chip maker, is to provide the graphics engine for Sony #39;s next-generation PlayStation. Nvidia shares rose more than 8 per cent on the news as analysts forecast | 3 |
Toshiba, Memory-Tech unveil new disc In an effort to ease the transition to higher-capacity disc technology, Toshiba and Memory-Tech have developed a dual-layer disc that supports DVD and HD DVD formats. | 3 |
Trojan poses as Lycos Europe screensaver An identity-stealing e-mail Trojan horse that disguises itself as the Lycos Europe antispam screensaver is being distributed around the Internet, an antivirus company has warned. | 3 |
Nintendo DS vs. Sony PSP As Fool Seth Jayson noted last week, Nintendo (OTC BB: NTDOY) had sold half a million of its portable Nintendo DS units within a week of their November 21 launch in the United States. | 3 |
Apple Meets Oracle #39;s Storage Approval With Apple (Quote, Chart) by its side, Oracle will begin offering a flexible storage strategy catering to customers concerned about cutting the costs associated with saving data. | 3 |
Syria frees political detainees It is reported to be the biggest single amnesty for three years. The official Sana news agency said it was part of an quot;open and tolerant policy quot;. | 0 |
Oil Falls to 3-Month Low on Mild Weather Oil prices fell more than a dollar to a three-month low on Tuesday as mild winter weather sapped demand in the heavy energy consuming US northeast. | 2 |
Nortel Wins \$1 Billion Contract for Sprint Upgrades RESEARCH TRIANGLE PARK - Sprint will invest more than \$2 billion to upgrade its wireless PCS network, and \$1 billion of that will go to Nortel. | 2 |
ID Biomedical #39;s Shot in the Arm ID Biomedical (Nasdaq: IDBE) recently showed the importance of being in the right place at the right time, especially in the vaccine business. | 2 |
Citigroup division ordered to pay fine, restitution for high-risk <b>...</b> Securities regulators have ordered a division of Citigroup Inc. to pay \$478,000 in a fine and restitution for allegedly recommending high-risk commodity futures funds to people who shouldn | 2 |
Telecom Italia to buy mobile arm Telecom Italia is to borrow another 12bn (\$16bn) to fund a cash and shares deal worth more than 20bn for the 44 per cent of its mobile arm that it does not own. | 2 |
Mozilla Launches Thunderbird 1.0 (PC World) PC World - Alternative e-mail client will compete with Outlook Express and Eudora. | 3 |
Dell Cuts Prices on Enterprise Hardware (NewsFactor) NewsFactor - Dell (Nasdaq: DELL) is giving its corporate customers a break, announcing price cuts on\hardware ranging from enterprise servers and workstations, to desktops\and notebooks for large business and institutional customers. | 3 |
Will analysts stick with Apple this time? com. Apple Computers stock price continues to set post-Power Macintosh G4 Cube records, most recently last week with a closing price of \$68.44 per share on Monday, November 29. | 3 |
EA working on new C amp;C Red Alert game Electronic Arts has revealed that it #39;s working on a new game in the Command amp; Conquer: Red Alert series in an email sent to fan site operators by VP and executive producer Mark Skaggs. | 3 |
Charges expected Wednesday from NBA brawl (AFP) AFP - Prosecutors here are expected to file charges Wednesday against National Basketball Association players and spectators who took part in a November 19 brawl. | 1 |
IOC opens investigation LONDON The International Olympic Committee has opened an investigation into doping allegations against US athlete Marion Jones. IOC president Jacques Rogge (ROH #39;-guh) set up a disciplinary commission to look | 1 |
German Welfare Cuts Kick In, Protests Limited BERLIN (Reuters) - Germany's sweeping welfare reforms went into effect without a hitch Monday as labor offices cut payments for a million jobless and qualifying tests got tougher. | 0 |
How Jose became most hated man in Porto Jose Mourinho #39;s Second Coming was not meant to be this way. The man who recently described himself as a #39;God #39; in Porto has been transformed in some people #39;seyes to the Devil Incarnate. | 1 |
Government Legislation: A Bad Idea for Baseball Following the revelation that Barry Bonds and Jason Giambi used steroids, some government officials began demanding that major league baseball adopt a stricter steroid policy. | 1 |
Deputy: Charges likely in scuffle at high school game A fight between players and fans at a high school basketball game last week probably will result in charges against some of those involved, a sheriff #39;s deputy said Tuesday. | 1 |
Four Palestinians, one Israeli soldier killed in Gaza Ezz Eddine al-Qassam groups, the military wing of the Islamic resistance movement Hamas claimed responsibility for the operation held today and resulted in killing one Israeli soldier and injuring other four to the east of al-Shuja #39;eya quarters in Gaza. | 0 |
Dutch arrest alleged Saddam aide DUTCH police have arrested a 62-year-old chemicals dealer suspected of involvement in war crimes and genocide committed by the regime of ousted Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein, the Dutch national prosecutor #39;s office said today. | 0 |
Outside View: Kofi Annan -- time to go UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan is the uppermost utopian model of international public servants, a Nobel Prize laureate, a pride to his native Africa. | 0 |
Ghana a Model for African Elections Urged to wield the power of the thumb, #39; #39; Ghana #39;s people exercised it in force Tuesday - pressing ink-moistened thumbs to ballots in an presidential election marking the | 0 |
Sharon wins key backing for coalition JERUSALEM - Israeli Finance Minister Benjamin Netanyahu gave possibly crucial backing on Tuesday for Prime Minister Ariel Sharons plan to invite the opposition Labour Party into a unity government, a Sharon aide said. | 0 |
What's Next for PeopleSoft? (NewsFactor) NewsFactor - To hear Oracle (Nasdaq: ORCL) tell it, PeopleSoft (Nasdaq: PSFT) users, as well as its stockholders, are becoming more comfortable with -- or at least resigned to -- the idea of Oracle's proposed acquisition of the enterprise software company. | 3 |
Karzai sworn in as first popularly elected Afghan president (AFP) AFP - Hamid Karzai was sworn in as Afghanistan's first democratically elected president, promising to restore security to the war-shattered country exactly three years after the fall of the Taliban. | 0 |
Will analysts stick with Apple this time? (MacCentral) MacCentral - Apple Computer #8217;s stock price continues to set post-Power Macintosh G4 Cube records, most recently last week with a closing price of #36;68.44 per share on Monday, November 29. That #8217;s the company #8217;s sixth-highest closing price of all time; the watermark remains #36;72.10 per share on March 22, 2000. | 3 |
Fertilizer May Be Root of Big Colombia Coca Plants (Reuters) Reuters - Giant coca plants said to\resist herbicides and yield eight times more cocaine may be due\to extra fertilizer, not a drug cartel's genetic modification\program, a scientist said on Tuesday. | 3 |
New Comet Now Visible to Naked Eye (SPACE.com) SPACE.com - A comet discovered earlier this year has now moved close enough to be visible without binoculars or telescopes by experienced observers under dark skies. It is expected to put on a modest show this month and into January. | 3 |
Report: Palestinians, Israel Back Peace Plan CAIRO (Reuters) - Palestinians and Israelis have agreed in principle to proposals aiming to end their conflict, Egypt's official news agency MENA reported Tuesday. | 0 |
Goodall Says Environment at 'Crossroads' (AP) AP - Biologist Jane Goodall brought her trademark message to Singapore on Tuesday: human beings and chimpanzees are more alike than one would think. | 3 |
NASA's Return to Flight on Track, Shuttle Officials Say (SPACE.com) SPACE.com - NASA is close \to nbsp;meeting all nbsp;of the return-to-flight safety requirements set by \Columbia accident investigators and should be able to launch a shuttle by May \2005, shuttle program officials said today. | 3 |
Excavators Discover 20 Mummies in Egypt (AP) AP - Excavators discovered 20 gilded mummies in the Bahariya oasis in western Egypt, the government's council of antiquities said Tuesday. | 3 |
Md. Researchers Growing Blue Crabs in Lab (AP) AP - More than 1,600 wriggling blue crabs, so young that their shells are still soft and see-through, are taken from gurgling tanks and dropped one at a time into coolers filled with nets. Minutes later, they are loaded onto trucks, driven to two tributaries of the Chesapeake Bay and dropped into the water. | 3 |
New Calif. Agency Begins Stem Cell Project (AP) AP - Californians voted by a wide margin last month to pass a landmark #36;3 billion initiative to fund stem-cell research. That may have been the easy part. | 3 |
New media battle for Bafta awards The BBC leads the nominations for the Bafta Interactive Awards, including for the Radio Times site. | 3 |
Clever Shopping Trolley Helps E-Tail Come of Age LONDON (Reuters) - Cheryl Samuel-Todd completes her round with seconds to spare, despite having a journalist and a public relations officer in tow. | 3 |
Intel Says It's 'Recovered' from Costly Missteps SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Intel Corp. <A HREF="http://www.reuters.co.uk/financeQuoteLookup.jhtml?ticker=INTC.O qtype=sym infotype=info qcat=news">INTC.O</A> will miss its 2004 product cost reduction targets because of a widely publicized string of product delays and problems, but those missteps are largely behind it now, the world's largest chip maker said on Tuesday. | 3 |
Lenovo May Be in Acquisition Talks With IBM China's biggest computer maker said Tuesday it is in acquisition talks with a major international technology company, a disclosure which comes amid reports it might buy IBM Corp.'s personal computer business. | 3 |
Experts Push for More Computer Security Efforts Computer-security experts, including\former government officials, urged the Bush administration on\Tuesday to devote more effort to strengthening defenses against\viruses, hackers and other online threats. <FONT face="verdana,MS Sans Serif,arial,helvetica" size="-2" color="#666666"><B>-Reuters</B></FONT> | 3 |
Court Hears Interstate Wine Sales Case State laws barring people from buying wine directly from out-of-state suppliers should be struck down as unconstitutional, the Supreme Court was told Tuesday, as it heard arguments in a case that could lead to sweeping changes on how alcoholic beverages are regulated and sold. | 3 |
How green are UK carbon trading plans? As UN climate change talks begin in Buenos Aires, we examine Britain's proposals to cut greenhouse gases. | 3 |
Russian call for Mars volunteers Scientists are selecting subjects to be locked in a self-sufficient capsule to test plans for a trip to Mars. | 3 |
Honeywell internal documents point to 5,000 jobs exported Honeywell documents reveal plans to move 5,000 jobs overseas | 3 |
At Inauguration, Karzai Pledges 'New Chapter' for Afghanistan Kabul was calm amid massive security for Hamid Karzai's inauguration ceremony, but overnight attacks provided a reminder of threats. | 0 |
Kanye West Leads Grammy Nominations With 10 Alicia Keys and Usher received 8 Grammy nominations each today and Ray Charles, who died in June, received 7. | 0 |
OpenWorld Notebook: Database, grid control boosted SAN FRANCISCO -- Oracle at the OpenWorld conference here on Tuesday is making several product rollouts, including a new version of its database and grid computing enhancements. | 3 |
Intel sheds light on 2005 desktop strategy Intel's products for the digital home and digital office in 2005 will give consumers and IT managers more capabilities than just raw performance, and the company plans to highlight those products as it did with its Centrino mobile technology, Intel executives said Tuesday. | 3 |
BEA hails app server upgrade SAN FRANCISCO -- Not to be outdone by rival Oracle's conference being held a block away, BEA Systems on Monday unveiled Version 9.0 of its WebLogic Server application server, code-named Diablo. | 3 |
Siemens sets wireless speed record with OFDM German electronics manufacturer Siemens has set what it claims to be the fastest-ever wireless connection. | 3 |
Industry group forms to track and thwart IM threats A group of Internet security and instant messaging (IM) providers have teamed up to detect and thwart the growing threat of IM and peer-to-peer (P-to-P) viruses and worms, they said Tuesday. | 3 |
Thunderbird 1.0 takes on Outlook Express, Eudora Weeks after the launch of its Firefox 1.0 Web browser, the Mozilla Foundation on Tuesday is set to release version 1.0 of its Thunderbird e-mail client. | 3 |
Dutch businessman faces genocide charges for selling chemicals to <b>...</b> A Dutch businessman will face genocide charges for allegedly supplying Saddam Hussein #39;s government with chemicals used to make poison gas that killed thousands of | 0 |
What Does the Future Hold for Flat TVs? Seiko Epson will commercialize OLED TVs by 2007, the company says. | 3 |
Group Formed to Track, Thwart IM Threats Users will receive free warnings of worms and viruses targeting their chat client. | 3 |
Mozilla Launches Thunderbird 1.0 Alternative e-mail client will compete with Outlook Express and Eudora. | 3 |
First Look: MusicMatch Jukebox's Impressive Version 10 Free software helps organize large music collections. | 3 |
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