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Supreme Court challenges lawyer for Rwandan accused of triggering slaughter (Canadian Press) Canadian Press - OTTAWA (CP) - A Supreme Court justice challenged a lawyer Wednesday who defended his Rwandan client's call in 1992 for the extermination of ethnic Tutsis prior to a bloody genocide in the African country. | 0 |
Australia to Upgrade Embassy Security (AP) AP - Australia's foreign ministry said Wednesday it will boost security spending at its embassies by #36;452 million after a terror attack on the U.S. consulate in Saudi Arabia left nine dead earlier this week. | 0 |
U.S. Warns Iran Against Iraq Interference (AP) AP - The Bush administration cautioned Iran on Wednesday against trying to influence the outcome of Iraq's election, reacting to fears that Tehran is trying to produce a Shiite-dominated Islamic government in Baghdad. | 0 |
Troops' Queries Leave Rumsfeld on the Defensive Iraq-bound troops complained that they were being sent into combat with insufficient protection and aging equipment. | 0 |
Lockout in N.H.L. Puts Businesses on the Brink In the many smaller cities that are reliant on hockey to enliven downtowns at night, the loss of a season is a significant blow. | 0 |
US group raises Kidde offer American engineering group United Technologies (UTC) yesterday moved a step closer to buying fire extinguisher maker Kidde. Kidde confirmed it was planning to open its books to UTC after receiving a revised 165p-a-share offer from the group. | 2 |
Amazon burning makes Brazil a leading polluter has made the country one of the world #39;s leading polluters, a long-delayed government report shows. up to 30 percent of the planet #39;s animal and plant species. | 3 |
Pop-up Loophole Opens Browsers to Phishing Attacks Security firm Secunia has warned that most Web browsers are vulnerable to a simple quot;phishing quot; technique that could make fraudulent content appear genuine. | 3 |
United Finish Second After Fener Defeat An unfamiliar-looking Manchester United team slumped to their first defeat of this Champions League campaign as Uefa Cup-bound Fenerbahce won 3-0 in Istanbul. | 1 |
6 Egyptians return back to their families, Azzam is grateful for <b>...</b> The 6 Egyptian students who arrived from Israel, arrived in their houses in the outskirts of Cairo, amid joys and happiness of their families after they had spent one full day of investigations with the Egyptian security and intelligence forces. | 0 |
Karzai turns to war on drugs and insurgents Freshly installed Afghan Pres-ident Hamid Karzai was gearing up yesterday to address tribal leaders on the need to eliminate this war-ravaged country #39;s booming drug trade, an aide said. | 0 |
5 Pacers and 5 Fans Are Charged in Fight No Pistons players were charged for the Nov. 19 brawl the brother of Detroit's Ben Wallace, was charged for throwing punches at the Pacers' Fred Jones. | 1 |
Death toll in Asian quake disaster passes 144,000 (AFP) AFP - The number of people killed in the massive earthquake and tidal waves that hit Indian Ocean shorelines a week ago passed 144,000. | 0 |
Browser phishing #39;flaw #39; could hook users com December 8, 2004, 4:50 PM PT. A function built into all major browsers could be co-opted by attackers to fool Web site visitors into surrendering sensitive information, a security firm warned on Wednesday. | 3 |
Skis Rossignol stock sizzles on Quicksilver (AFP) AFP - Shares in French group Skis Rossignol, the biggest manufacturer of ski equipment in the world, sizzled upwards by 12.66 percent in the first trading session of the New Year followiing a newspaper interview that US sports group Quicksilver was stalking a stake. | 0 |
Garey Has the Answer Maryland's Jason Garey has the second-highest goal total in the country this season, and could emerge as the key figure in Friday's College Cup semifinal against defending champion Indiana. | 1 |
Patriots Finally Prevail George Mason's 70-62 over Georgetown has everything a local rivalry should have: wild momentum swings, scrappy play and even a little blood. | 1 |
Pistons Prevail in OT Richard Hamilton scores six of his 19 points in overtime as Detroit holds off Toronto, 90-86, Wednesday night. | 1 |
I.B.M. Prepares Substitution for Pensions of New Hires I.B.M. is planning to close its employee pension plan to new employees at the end of the year and give all new workers a 401(k) plan instead. | 2 |
Amazon's 'morning nightmare' lasts 11 days, and counting Peak-time woes bedevil merchants, customers | 3 |
Snow to Remain Treasury's Chief, White House Says Treasury Secretary John W. Snow will remain in his job after weeks in which Republicans had talked openly about his impending departure. | 2 |
Oracle to 'Oversupport' PeopleSoft Customer -Ellison SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Business software maker Oracle Corp. <A HREF="http://www.reuters.co.uk/financeQuoteLookup.jhtml?ticker=ORCL.O qtype=sym infotype=info qcat=news">ORCL.O</A> will do everything it can to support PeopleSoft Inc. <A HREF="http://www.reuters.co.uk/financeQuoteLookup.jhtml?ticker=PSFT.O qtype=sym infotype=info qcat=news">PSFT.O</A> customers, who are vital to the success of Oracle's proposed \$9.2 billion takeover of PeopleSoft, Oracle Co-Founder and Chief Executive Larry Ellison said on Wednesday. | 3 |
HP Pressured to Sell PC Business After IBM Deal SEATTLE (Reuters) - Hewlett-Packard Co. <A HREF="http://www.reuters.co.uk/financeQuoteLookup.jhtml?ticker=HPQ.N qtype=sym infotype=info qcat=news">HPQ.N</A> will be under pressure to sell its personal computer business after IBM's decision to sell its PC operations to China's top PC manufacturer, but analysts said the No. 2 computer maker would hold on to its \$25 billion PC division for now. | 3 |
Ex-U.S. Cyber Security Chief Sees Curb on Phishing SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - A former White House Web security chief predicted on Wednesday that technology companies and law enforcers could soon stamp out most Internet "phishing" scams that aim to trick people into giving away personal and financial information. | 3 |
Chinese Companies Seen Following Lenovo-IBM Lead NEW YORK (Reuters) - China, already a manufacturing powerhouse, is flexing its financial muscles as companies based there snatch up famous-name products from established companies in the United States and Europe looking to divest low-margin businesses. | 3 |
South America Eyes EU-Style Integration CUZCO, Peru (Reuters) - South American leaders on Wednesday launched a regional integration pact they said would go beyond rhetoric and usher in European-style unity, but only half the future bloc's 12 presidents turned up to sign it. | 0 |
Sun Plans to Call on Lenovo After IBM Deal-CEO SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Scott McNealy is looking forward to making an early sales call on Lenovo's new CEO as soon as the company's \$1.25 billion deal to buy IBM's PC business closes, the Sun Microsystems CEO said on Wednesday. | 3 |
Film Industry Sues DVD Jukebox Maker A film industry group has sued a high-end consumer electronics company, claiming its home theater jukebox system makes illegal copies of movie DVDs. | 3 |
D.C.-Area Video Game Stores Targeted in Piracy Raid Federal authorities raided three Washington, D.C.-area video game stores and arrested two people for modifying video game consoles to play pirated video games, a video game industry group said Wednesday. | 3 |
Groups Debate Slower Strategy on Gay Rights Gay rights leaders are debating if they should moderate their goals after 11 states approved constitutional amendments prohibiting same-sex marriages. | 0 |
Pain of War Draws Bead on New York Region Since Nov. 7, 19 servicemen from New York, New Jersey and Connecticut have been killed in Iraq. | 0 |
Senate Approves Intelligence Bill The Senate vote, 89 to 2, ended a debate that began last summer with the release of the final report of the 9/11 panel. | 0 |
Lenovo acquires IBM #39;s personal computing division Chinese PC vendor Lenovo announced its acquisition of IBM #39;s Personal Computing Division (PCD) for a combination of cash and stock totaling US\$1.25 billion. | 2 |
Ellison: Oracle Will Ship PeopleSoft #39;s Next-Generation Products SAN FRANCISCOOracle Corp. will complete development and ship the next version of PeopleSoft #39;s flagship enterprise applications even if it ultimately succeeds in buying out its competitor. | 2 |
Australian Nickel Miner Announces Upgrade Australian mining company WMC Resources Ltd. on Thursday forecast record profits for 2004 and announced plans to return up to 1 billion Australian dollars (US\$761 million; euro570 million) to shareholders | 2 |
Steering California #39;s Fight on Emissions Fran Pavley, a soft-spoken, retired schoolteacher who went into California politics, probably never thought she would find herself defending the environmental credentials of Gov. | 2 |
Panel Urges Shuttle Mission to Help Hubble Contradicting NASA policy in a long and bitter debate over science and safety, a panel of the National Academy of Sciences said Wednesday that the | 3 |
Disney Picks Sony Format for DVD #39;s of Its Films The Walt Disney Company and its home video division, Buena Vista Home Entertainment, said yesterday that they would release films in the next-generation high-definition DVD format being developed | 3 |
Astronomers Contemplate Icy Volcanoes in Far Places Hundreds of tiny worlds circling beyond Neptune have been thought of as frozen in time, almost unchanged since they formed at the birth of the solar system five billion years ago. | 3 |
China Bans British Football Computer Game China has banned British computer game Football Manager 2005, saying it violated Chinese law by referring to Taiwan, Hong Kong and other regions claimed by China as separate countries. | 3 |
5 Pacers and 5 Fans Are Charged in Fight Nearly three weeks after the brawl that left an indelible scar on the NBA, five Indiana Pacers and five Pistons fans were charged Wednesday with misdemeanor assault and battery. | 1 |
Captain Gerrard Helps Liverpool Overcome Champions League Odds Liverpool captain Steven Gerrard said he thought his team was heading out of the Champions League midway through yesterday #39;s match against Olympiakos. | 1 |
Real Madrid beat Roma Two second-half goals from Luis Figo made sure Real Madrid put a recent bad streak behind them and qualified for the UEFA Champions League #39;s last 16 knockout round. | 1 |
Redknapp unrepentant about move from Portsmouth to Southampton? <b>...</b> Harry Redknapp shocked Portsmouth two weeks ago by quitting to take a break from soccer. Now those same fans are in a rage _ he #39;s joined the one club they despise. | 1 |
Juve draw showed Maccabi deserved place in elite - coach Maccabi Tel Aviv coach Nir Klinger said his side fully deserved their place in the Champions League despite finishing bottom of Group C after a 1-1 home draw with Juventus on Wednesday. | 1 |
Karimi named AFC Player of the Year Iranian striker Ali Karimi was named 2004 Asian Player of the Year on Wednesday at the Asian Football Confederation awards in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. | 1 |
No. 10 Kentucky 71, Morehead St. 40 A strong defensive effort helped Kentucky overcome poor shooting against instate rival Morehead State on Wednesday night. Kelenna Azubuike scored 19 of his 21 points in the second half | 1 |
Iraqis may extend election amid violence Iraq may modify plans for its first free election to give people more time to vote next month, officials said on Wednesday as suicide bombers and gunmen again struck Sunni Muslim towns north and west of the capital. | 0 |
NATO seeks to boost image in Middle East Middle East. But the results have been patchy, with many in the Arab world regarding it as a. and social reforms in the Middle East and Africa. | 0 |
Knicks Swat Hornets 86-79 (AP) AP - Stephon Marbury had 22 points and nine assists to help the New York Knicks end a three-game losing streak with an 86-79 victory over New Orleans on Wednesday night, dropping the Hornets to 0-9 at home. | 1 |
Pistons Stop Raptors 90-86 in Overtime (AP) AP - Richard Hamilton scored six of his 19 points in overtime as the Detroit Pistons held off the Toronto Raptors 90-86 on Wednesday night. | 1 |
Boston Red Sox Sign Pitcher Matt Mantei (Reuters) Reuters - The World Series Champion Boston\Red Sox have signed relief pitcher Matt Mantei to a one-year\contract worth #36;750,000. | 1 |
Boston Red Sox Sign Pitcher Matt Mantei BOSTON (Sports Network) - The World Series Champion Boston Red Sox have signed relief pitcher Matt Mantei to a one-year contract worth \$750,000. | 1 |
Padres Sign Williams and Blum ST. LOUIS, Mo., (Sports Network) - San Diego signed pitcher Woody Williams and infielder Geoff Blum on Wednesday to one-year, free-agent contracts. | 1 |
Oracle mixes messages on PeopleSoft support At its user conference on Wednesday, Oracle continued sending mixed messages to PeopleSoft customers concerned about how Oracle will support their products if it succeeds in its \$9.2 billion takeover bid. | 3 |
Oracle CEO: Centralizing data took 5 years Oracle's recently completed consolidation to a single, global system for enterprise data took five years, Oracle Chief Executive Officer Larry Ellison told OpenWorld attendees Wednesday during his keynote address at Oracle's user conference being held in San Francisco. | 3 |
Giant Retailer Web Sites Hit With Outages Walmart.com, Amazon.com suffer site performance problems during holiday shopping. | 3 |
NVidia Will Supply Graphics Chip for New PlayStation PlayStation 3 graphics chip will also be available for Sony digital consumer products. | 3 |
Gazprom Gets \$10 Bln Loan, Plans Bond, Bankers Say (Update2) OAO Gazprom, the world #39;s biggest natural-gas company, will borrow \$10 billion from six banks led by Deutsche Bank AG to help finance a bid for OAO Yukos Oil Co. | 2 |
Automakers draw battleline with California Toyota, General Motors and seven other automakers filed suit on Tuesday to block California #39;s new greenhouse gas regulation, which was approved by the state in its final form in September. | 2 |
Mobile firms sign 'Super 3G' deal NTT DoCoMo, Vodafone and 24 other mobile phone firms and manufacturers join forces to develop the next generation of high-speed networks. | 0 |
NO NERVES FOR CONFIDENT ALMUNIA Arsenal goalkeeper Manuel Almunia insists he can handle the pressure if he keeps his place for Sundays Barclays Premiership showdown with Chelsea. | 1 |
Gaza Settlers Seek to Keep Communities Residents of some Jewish settlements in the northern Gaza Strip have proposed that their entire communities be moved to locations inside Israel under Prime Minister Ariel | 0 |
Gazprom board approves Yukos bid MOSCOW (AFP) - The Russian gas giant Gazprom said its board of directors had given its go-ahead for the state-controlled firm to bid for the main production unit of embattled oil group Yukos. | 2 |
Cheaper flights to Britain VIRGIN Atlantic chairman Sir Richard Branson yesterday promised Australian travellers cheaper flights to Britain and attacked the cosy duopoly of Kangaroo route leaders Qantas Airways Ltd and British Airways. | 2 |
Cheers Greet Rescuers in Aceh, Children Suffer BANDA ACEH, Indonesia (Reuters) - U.S. helicopters shuttled injured refugees, many of them children, out of some of the worst hit parts of tsunami-devastated Aceh province, even as reports surfaced of trafficking in orphans from the disaster. | 0 |
Asia Tech Stocks Weak, Dollar Firm (Reuters) Reuters - Weak tech stocks dragged Asian shares\lower on Thursday, outweighing the positive impact on exporters\of a dollar rebound, and knocking 1.2 percent off Tokyo shares\to threaten the biggest one-day fall since Nov. 22. | 2 |
Doubts raised about robots fixing Hubble The nation #39;s most prominent science advisers Wednesday urged NASA to send shuttle astronauts instead of robots on a repair mission to the aging Hubble telescope because humans have a substantially greater chance of fixing it. | 3 |
Scientists Crack Chicken #39;s Genetic Code Scientists have cracked the genetic code of the chicken, showing it shares about 60 percent of its genes with humans and has a common ancestor that lived about 310 million years ago. | 3 |
Amazon creates greenhouse gas THE burning and deforestation of Brazil #39;s vast Amazon rain forest causes nearly 3 per cent of the world #39;s greenhouse gas emissions, according to a government report released today. | 3 |
Ministry of Culture bans Premier Manager 2005 Ministry of Culture recently demanded the various cultural departments across the country to ban a kind of computer named Premier Manager 2005, or Soccer Manager 2005. | 3 |
Knicks swat Hornets 86-79 Stephon Marbury had 22 points and nine assists to help the New York Knicks end a three-game losing streak with an 86-79 victory over New Orleans on Wednesday night, dropping the Hornets to 0-9 at home. | 1 |
IBM Reassures Workers After Milestone China Deal During an IBM employee meeting here Wednesday, a worker got up and asked a question that perhaps only 10 years ago would have been unthinkable: If he wanted | 2 |
Auto Makers Sue to Block New California Emission Rule DALLAS -- Auto makers filed suit Tuesday to block California from forcing the companies to make cars and trucks that emit lower levels of global-warming gases. | 2 |
Hospitals Use Technology to Aid Patients (AP) AP - Lucille Lamarca could feel her heart begin to beat at a worrisome pace as she lay there alone in the intensive care unit at Buffalo General Hospital with a heart condition. Then from a speaker came a reassuring voice. | 3 |
IceRocket Launches RSS Feed Builder IceRocket Launches RSS Feed Builder\\IceRocket is at it again! The search engine that brought the world a hip alternative to Google along with news, blog, and MoBlog search has just added an excellent tool for web site publishers, an RSS Feed Builder. IceRocket's RSS Builder is an easy to use ... | 3 |
Google AdSense to Introduce Animated Banner Advertising Google AdSense to Introduce Animated Banner Advertising\\Google has announced a number of changes for their Adsense advertising program that has become the mainstay of many blogs and websites. In what could be considered somewhat contriversial, Google has announced as part of an expansion of its image ad program they will ... | 3 |
Search Engine Friendly Blog URLs and other Word Tricks Search Engine Friendly Blog URL's and other Word Tricks\\When writing a blog, particularly for the first time, the last thing many bloggers consider is the use of Search Engine Friendly (SEF) Blog URL's. SEF Blog URL's are an important tool for driving traffic to your blog utilising the billions of ... | 3 |
Blingo Search Engine Offers Prizes To Users Blingo Search Engine Offers Prizes To Users\\Blingo is a new search engine offering users something extra along with their search results. Every time users search on Blingo, they also have a chance to win a prize instantly. Don't confuse Blingo with Plinko, the Price is Right game where we all ... | 3 |
EffectiveBrand Showcases Travelocity Travel Search Toolbar EffectiveBrand Showcases Travelocity Travel Search Toolbar\\Busy travelers shopping for the right priced flights, hotel rooms, and car rentals have turned to Travelocity on many occassions for their online travel needs. Making Travelocity one of the premier online travel sites - compared with Yahoo Travel and MSN's Expedia. Such popularity in ... | 3 |
Oracle piles Files, App Server and Collab Suite on users McNealy warns Ellison: 'Beware of our Redmond friends' | 3 |
For Satellite Radio Fans, Northern Exposure Canadian musicians may get more exposure if satellite radio, with its hundreds of channels, is approved in Canada. | 3 |
All This, and They Take Pictures, Too What will \$300 buy in a digital camera this year? A comparison of a dozen models to see how much quality (and how many megapixels) you can get. | 3 |
Giving Gamers Another Window on Their World The newest piece of hardware in the video game wars, the Nintendo DS hand-held console, is out to prove that two is better than one. | 3 |
Tom Swift's New Camera, Ready for Space and Spies Clifford Ross has invented a camera capable of producing negatives containing 100 times as much data as the average professional digital camera. | 3 |
Campina and Arla churn up dairy merger Falling milk prices, evaporating European Union subsidies and tougher demands by supermarket chains yesterday nudged two of Europe #39;s leading dairy companies into the biggest merger in the continent #39;s dairy industry. | 2 |
DreamWorks Animation delays release of Shrek 3 by six months DreamWorks Animation SKG Inc., the studio behind the animated hit Shrek 2, said Wednesday that Shrek 3 will be released six months later than previously scheduled as the result in a shift in marketing strategy. | 2 |
Economy expands, but only marginally The economic growth rate in the July-September period was revised slightly downward from an already weak preliminary report, the government said Wednesday. | 2 |
UTC makes new offer for Kidde as deadline looms UNITED TECHNOLOGIES (UTC), which has just seven days left to launch a formal bid for Kidde, is likely to ask the Takeover Panel for a deadline extension, after raising its offer by 42 million to 1.39 billion yesterday. | 2 |
Giving a little bit back Its mid-morning and a cold breeze scuttles leaves and small debris past Kenny Banks as he stands in the shade of Kmarts entrance, ringing his bell. | 2 |
Supreme Court Limits Trademark Protection By Bloomberg News. The United States Supreme Court limited the scope of federal trademark protection yesterday, saying that rival companies in some cases can use proprietary terms even when that might cause confusion among customers. | 2 |
Tech Buying Guide: DVD Players and Recorders DVD players: Buying a DVD player shouldn #39;t be a problem these days, but understanding all the features crammed into it may be. | 3 |
MN to issue high-tech-driver #39;s licenses Minnesota will soon begin issuing new driver #39;s licenses that contain high-tech features to curb counterfeiting, as well as a quot;status check quot; that will show a driver #39;s immigration status. | 3 |
Shaq Leads Heat Past Bucks 101-96 (AP) AP - Shaquille O'Neal scored eight of his 18 points in the fourth quarter, leading the Miami Heat to a 101-96 victory over the Milwaukee Bucks on Wednesday night. | 1 |
Raptors Carter Hurt; Pistons Roll in OT AUBURN HILLS, Mich., Dec. 8 (Ticker) -- Richard Hamilton scored 19 points, including six in overtime, as the Detroit Pistons outlasted the Toronto Raptors, 90-86. | 1 |
Knicks Swat Hornets 86-79 New York Knicks #39; Stephon Marbury (3) fires over New Orleans Hornets #39; Dan Dickau (2) during the second half in New Orleans Wednesday night, Dec. 8, 2004. | 1 |
Sands Eyes More Casino-Hotels in Macau (AP) AP - U.S. gaming company Las Vegas Sands Inc. wants to build six more hotels that include some casinos in an area of the southern Chinese gambling enclave of Macau it hopes to model after the Las Vegas Strip. | 0 |
Singapore growth set to contract Singapore's economy grows by 8.1 in 2004, as a surge in manufacturing demand drove its best performance since 2000. | 2 |
Aborigines Accuse Gov't. of Humiliation (AP) AP - The Australian government has been accused of humiliating Aborigines plagued by a blinding infection after offering to provide their community with a gasoline pump if they agreed to make their children wash their faces twice a day. | 0 |
College Basketball: Kentucky, Virginia Win LEXINGTON, Ky. (Sports Network) - Kelenna Azubuike poured in a game-high 21 points, Shagari Alleyne added 11 points and Kentucky rolled past Morehead State, 71-40, in non-conference play at Rupp Arena. | 1 |
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