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Canada #39;s Bombardier fires chief executive Yesterday #39;s immediate dismissal of Paul Tellier is a move analysts say increases investor uncertainty over the company #39;s direction. | 2 |
Honeywell agrees to pay \$1.7 billion for Novar PLC LONDON Honeywell International Inc., the New Jersey aerospace and high-tech manufacturer, has agreed to buy the British industrial holding company Novar PLC for about \$1.7 billion, the companies said Monday. | 2 |
Danske Bank to Buy Irish Banks for 967 Million Pounds (Update2) Danske Bank A/S, the Nordic region #39;s second-largest lender, agreed to buy two Irish units from National Australia Bank Ltd. for 967 million pounds (\$1.86 billion) to expand outside Scandinavia. | 2 |
Pearson sells out of Spanish business for 743m Pearson said on Tuesday it had agreed to sell its controlling stake in Spanish media group Recoletos for 743m to a consortium of Spanish investors. | 2 |
Bolden on list to lead NASA Columbia native and former astronaut Charles Bolden is on the short list to replace Sean OKeefe, who resigned Monday after three tumultuous years running the nations space program. | 3 |
MSN unveils search software Microsoft #39;s MSN division yesterday unveiled software that searches files stored on a computer, improving what had been a ponderous and time-consuming task while at the same time laying groundwork for future battles with rivals Google and Yahoo! | 3 |
Ten percent birds disappear by 2100: study BEIJING, Dec. 14 -- Ten percent of all bird species are set to go extinct by the end of this century, US researchers said on Monday. | 3 |
Hollywood fights illegal downloads by targeting servers Hollywood #39;s major studios intend to escalate their battle against illegal movie downloading by targeting the popular BitTorrent network and those who operate | 3 |
Pedro served his purpose here He is gone, and that is unfortunate, but it is not tragic or disastrous or catastrophic. Pedro Martinez stats, news was worth every cent the Red Sox stats, schedule | 1 |
WACA expects day one sellout ENCOURAGINGLY for the cash-strapped Western Australian Cricket Association, all but about 300 public seating tickets for day one of the first Test against Pakistan at the WACA Ground have been sold. | 1 |
Clippers fall in double overtime The Clippers have seemed destined for overtimes in this young NBA season. On Monday night, they squandered a 14-point lead and again found themselves in overtime. | 1 |
Sun blaze Magic 121-100 BEIJING, Dec. 14 -- The Phoenix Suns continued to blaze brightly as they beat Orlando Magic 121-100 and kept their leading position at the NBA. | 1 |
Jets' Martin No. 4 on NFL Rushing List (AP) AP - New York Jets running back Curtis Martin passed Eric Dickerson and Jerome Bettis on the NFL career rushing list Sunday against the St. Louis Rams, moving to fourth all-time. | 1 |
Judge declares Pinochet fit to stand trial Judge Juan Guzman yesterday indicted former General Augusto Pinochet for his involvement in the Condor operation, while he had Chile under military rule between 1973 and 1990. | 0 |
Two Marines, one soldier killed in Iraq Two Marines were killed in Iraq #39;s volatile Anbar province, the military said today. A military statement said two Marines assigned to the 1st Marine Expeditionary | 0 |
Damascus Bomb Misses Hamas Target A member of the Palestinian resistance group Hamas escaped unhurt on Monday when a bomb blew up his car in the Syrian capital Damascus, a Palestinian source said. | 0 |
Tellier clashed with owners The abrupt ousting of Bombardier Inc. chief executive Paul Tellier yesterday was the culmination of 23 months of growing differences and frustration between him and the controlling shareholder, the Bombardier family, industry sources say. | 2 |
Unocal strikes deal with Myanmar villagers over alleged slave <b>...</b> LOS ANGELES: US-based Unocal Corp. will pay to boost living conditions and protect villagers near Myanmar #39;s Yadana gas pipeline under the settlement of a key human rights abuse case, the parties said. | 2 |
LSU hopeful O #39;Keefe praised for turning NASA around Sean O #39;Keefe, who resigned Monday as the head of NASA to pursue his application to become chancellor of Louisiana State University, is credited with helping restore the space | 3 |
Chiefs Defeat Titans 49-38 Two of the league #39;s most disappointing teams put on quite a show in prime time. And after all the wild plays and big offensive numbers Monday night, a phantom penalty, followed | 1 |
Seven killed, 13 wounded in Baghdad suicide attack A suicide car bomber killed seven people when he struck a checkpoint at Baghdad #39;s Green Zone early Tuesday, the second attack in two days at the district that houses Iraq #39;s interim government and foreign embassies, officials said. | 0 |
Google plans index for five major libraries Google Inc. has launched an effort to establish an online reading room for five major libraries by scanning stacks of hard-to-find books into its widely used Internet search engine. | 2 |
Tokyo Stocks Rise, Dollar Lower (AP) AP - Tokyo stocks rose Tuesday as investors bought blue chips and issues of consumer electronics makers following Wall Street's overnight rally. The U.S. dollar inched down against the Japanese yen. | 0 |
New Orleans Bowl Who: North Texas (7-4)vs. Southern Miss. (6-5) When and where: Tonight, 7:30,at New Orleans. TV: ESPN. Last meeting: Southern Mississippi won, 22-0, in 1981. Comments: North Texas freshman running back Jamario Thomas led the Sun Belt in rushing with 1,709 yards in just nine games. He rushed for more than 200 yards four times and scored 17 touchdowns while leading ... | 1 |
Return up in the air Carson Palmer might be back Sunday, Eli Manning will start Saturday, and Jeff Garcia won't be back this season. Another quarterback, Denver's Jake Plummer , likely will be fined for making an obscene gesture toward the stands. | 1 |
Nib Employs 800 People in the Republic of Ireland, While Northern <b>...</b> Danske Bank chief executive Peter Straarup said he planned to expand NIBs branch network in the Republic. The economy of the Republic of Ireland continues to outperform other European economies, and | 2 |
Jays give Koskie \$17M over three years TORONTO -- Roy Halladay never liked Corey Koskie -- never liked facing him that is. quot;I never liked him -- Koskie, Doug Mientkiewicz and Torii Hunter, they always gave me problems, quot; the Toronto Blue Jays #39; former | 1 |
15 killed as trains collide in India The crash happened along a rural stretch of track between the cities of Pathankot and Jalandhar, in India #39;s northern Punjab province, about 180 miles north-west of New Delhi. | 0 |
PM to attend crucial EU summit this week Lawrence Gonzi will at the end of this week lead a Maltese team at a crucial EU summit marking the end of the six month Dutch presidency. | 0 |
Dollar Steadies Before Fed Meets LONDON (Reuters) - The dollar held steady against major currencies on Tuesday as markets awaited the assessment of the economy from the Federal Reserve after an expected interest rate rise later in the session. | 2 |
Govt. Seeks to Seize Rigas Systems - WSJ NEW YORK (Reuters) - The Justice Department has asked a judge to enter a \$2.53 billion judgment against two Rigas family members in a bid to seize some cable systems run by Adelphia Communications Corp., the Wall Street Journal reported on Tuesday. | 2 |
Danske buys two banks from NAB Denmark's largest bank is to buy a Belfast-based and Dublin-based bank from National Australian Bank for 967m. | 2 |
Fashioning a new strategy What do women want? Luciano Manganella, the owner of the trendy Boston women's boutique JasmineSola, has a pretty good idea. And now after 34 years in business, he's plotting a major expansion. | 2 |
Oracle victorious in quest for PeopleSoft It #39;s finally over. Business-software maker PeopleSoft (PSFT) agreed to be acquired by rival Oracle (ORCL) for \$10.3 billion Monday, ending 18 | 2 |
GM, Daimler to cooperate on hybrids General Motors and DaimlerChrysler announced plans yesterday to collaborate on fuel-saving hybrid gasoline-electric propulsion systems, which analysts said could reduce the costs of their | 2 |
Dim outlook for new hires The new year may be a slow one for job seekers, as few area employers expect to be hiring in the first quarter of 2005, the latest Manpower Employment Outlook Survey showed. | 2 |
Crime dive lifts Mike #39;s spirits In what could have passed for a campaign kickoff, Mayor Bloomberg yesterday touted fresh statistics that show crime in the city continued to plunge this year. | 2 |
Report: Delta to Slash Fares NEW YORK (Reuters) - Delta Air Lines Inc. <A HREF="http://www.investor.reuters.com/FullQuote.aspx?ticker=DAL.N target=/stocks/quickinfo/fullquote">DAL.N</A>, the No. 3 U.S. carrier which has been restructuring in efforts to avoid a bankruptcy filing, is expected to slash fares and remove restrictive rules such as Saturday-night stays, Time magazine reported in its online edition on Sunday. | 2 |
MSN forced to offer search software. After Google announced their search software utility and Yahoo! told the world they are working on a similar program. MSN is now beta testing their software. | 3 |
Firefox Gains Ground WebSideStory, a provider of on-demand Web analytics, in its latest independent study has said that in the one-month period from November 5 to December 3, 2004, Firefox #39;s online usage share has grown from 3.03 percent to 4.06 percent in the US alone. | 3 |
Toshiba launches HDD with new recording technology and sets record Toshiba Corporation announced the first hard disk drives (HDD) based on perpendicular recording, boosting the capacity of a single 1.8-inch hard-disk platter to 40 gigabytes. | 3 |
Grid researchers go commerical The researchers who spawned the idea of grid computing will launch a company on Monday to commercialise what so far has been a very academic software project for sharing computing resources. | 3 |
Congo Says Its Troops Are Fighting Rwandan Forces (Reuters) Reuters - Congo's government spokesman denied\Tuesday that rival army factions were fighting each other in\the east of the country and insisted the clashes were between\Congolese and Rwandan forces. | 0 |
Kobe upset by Malone #39;s alleged come-on to wife Kobe Bryant has accused Karl Malone of making a pass at his wife, Vanessa, at a game last month. She told him that Malone made inappropriate comments to her Nov. 23 at Staples Center. | 1 |
Globus Toolkit Creators Form Grid Software Company (TechWeb) TechWeb - The creators of the Globus Toolkit, an open source grid infrastructure software, have formed a new company, Univa, to provide commercial software, services and support for Globus software. | 3 |
No sightings of bin Laden, Pakistan says ISLAMABAD, Pakistan - Pakistan said Monday that there was no evidence Osama bin Laden is hiding in the country and denied it allowed CIA agents to set up bases along the border to search for the al-Qaida leader. | 0 |
France Bans Hizbollah Satellite TV as Anti-Jewish A French court ordered a prompt end to satellite television broadcasts to Europe by Lebanon #39;s Hizbollah guerrilla group on Monday on grounds they were clearly anti-Semitic and a potential threat to public order. | 0 |
Bourses start higher on late Street rally (FT.com) FT.com - Europe's bourses opened higher after Wall Street climbed late on on confirmation of the PeopleSoft/Oracle merger. In the early evening European time, the US Federal Reserve is expected to raise interest rates by a further quarter of a percentage point. | 3 |
Antarctic Penguin Chicks Face Starvation (AP) AP - A remnant of the largest iceberg ever recorded is blocking Antarctica's McMurdo Sound, threatening tens of thousands of penguin chicks with starvation and cutting off a supply route for three science stations, a New Zealand official said Tuesday. | 3 |
No plans to trade Ramirez ANAHEIM, Calif. -- Losing Pedro Martinez to the Mets is one thing. But sending Manny Ramirez to Shea Stadium is something the Red Sox have no plans to consider, despite reports that the Mets inquired about trading for the 2004 World Series MVP. | 1 |
Another victory for Miller World Cup leader Bode Miller won the slalom yesterday at Sestriere, Italy, to join Marc Girardelli as the only men to win races in all four disciplines in a season. Miller, of Franconia, N.H., won for the sixth time in 10 World Cup races by finishing two runs down the 2006 Olympic course in a combined 1 minute 39.03 seconds. ... | 1 |
Today's schedule College basketball: MEN -- Harvard at Fairfield, 7 p.m.; UMass-Lowell at Stonehill, 7:30 p.m.; WOMEN -- Harvard at Boston University, 7 p.m. | 1 |
UK customers get your skates on <strong>Cash'n'Carrion</strong> Last order date tomorrow | 3 |
Google to scan famous libraries The libraries of some of the world's most important academic institutions are to be digitised by Google. | 3 |
France shows off tallest bridge The world's tallest bridge, higher even than the Eiffel Tower, is being inaugurated by the French president. | 3 |
UK Court Backs Probe Into Iraqi's Death (Reuters) Reuters - A British court on Tuesday backed\demands by relatives of a dead Iraqi hotel worker for an\independent probe into claims he was unlawfully killed and\abused by UK troops detaining him. | 0 |
US space agency chief resigns The head of the US space agency (Nasa), Sean O'Keefe, resigns after three years in the post. | 3 |
Indian Train Crash Kills 25, More Than 250 Injured NEW DELHI (Reuters) - Two passenger trains collided in northern India Tuesday, killing at least 25 people and injuring more than 250, police said. | 0 |
UK Court Backs Probe Into Iraqi's Death LONDON (Reuters) - A British court on Tuesday backed demands by relatives of a dead Iraqi hotel worker for an independent probe into claims he was unlawfully killed and abused by UK troops detaining him. | 0 |
Seven killed in Baghdad suicide attack BAGHDAD A suicide car bomber killed seven people when he struck a checkpoint at Baghdads Green Zone early Tuesday, the second attack in two days at the district that houses Iraqs interim government and foreign embassies, officials said. | 0 |
Congo Says Its Troops Are Fighting Rwandan Forces Congo #39;s government spokesman denied Tuesday that rival army factions were fighting each other in the east of the country and insisted the clashes were between Congolese and Rwandan forces. | 0 |
DaimlerChrysler, GM in ioint hybrid plan BEIJING, Dec. 14 -- General Motors and DaimlerChrysler will jointly develop a gasoline-electric powered car to match Toyota and Honda in so-called hybrid vehicles that save fuel and cut emissions. | 2 |
Fischer on Iran: Step by step forward on basis of realism Brussels, Dec 13, IRNA -- German Foreign Minister Joschka Fischer said Monday that so long Iran #39;s voluntary suspension of enrichment activities continues, the EU commitments also remain valid. | 0 |
Transport costs fuel UK inflation Rising fuel costs and high air fares push up UK inflation during November, according to official figures. | 2 |
Google to scan famous libraries The libraries of five of the world #39;s most important academic institutions are to be digitised by Google. Scanned pages from books in the public domain will then be made available for search and reading online. | 3 |
Toshiba unveils 80GB #39;iPod drive #39; Toshiba today paved the way for 80GB iPods when it said it will ship an 80GB 1.8in hard drive in Q3 2005 - a year after it introduced the 60GB version that can currently to be found inside the iPod Photo. | 3 |
Eight More Bodies Found in Mosul (AP) AP - U.S. troops discovered eight more bodies in the restive northern Iraqi city of Mosul, bringing the number of bodies found there since Nov. 10 to more than 150, the U.S. military said Tuesday. | 0 |
Red Bull boost for Coulthard LONDON (AFP) - McLaren discard David Coulthard looks set to be offered a way back into Formula One for the 2005 season as a driver with the new Red Bull Racing team. | 1 |
20 Killed in India Train Collision (AP) AP - Two passenger trains collided head-on on a stretch of rural track in northern India on Tuesday, killing at least 20 people and injuring dozens of others, officials said. | 0 |
Captain Ordered Off UK Warship and Sent Home LONDON (Reuters) - Britain's defense ministry has taken the highly unusual step of ordering a navy captain to leave his ship and return to the UK to face an investigation. | 0 |
Sub Leads Wake Forest to Win Over Temple (AP) AP - Trent Strickland didn't demand the ball. He wanted to guard the player who had it. Strickland scored all nine of his points over the final 9 minutes and played solid defense down the stretch, leading No. 6 Wake Forest to a 67-64 victory over Temple on Monday night. | 1 |
Antarctic Penguin Chicks Face Starvation A remnant of the largest iceberg ever recorded is blocking Antarctica #39;s McMurdo Sound, threatening tens of thousands of penguin chicks with | 3 |
Airlines Expect \$5 Bln Loss in '04 --IATA GENEVA (Reuters) - International airlines are heading for a near \$5 billion loss this year, largely due to the oil price rise, the chief economist of the industry's global body IATA said on Tuesday. | 2 |
Oracle case moot (TheDeal.com) TheDeal.com - Lawyers were cordial after PeopleSoft agreed for the enterprise software company to acquire it for #36;26.50 a share. | 3 |
Microsoft releases desktop search beta Two months after Google opened up a whole new market with its desktop search tool, Microsoft has joined the party with the release of its own beta test version. | 3 |
NASA chief resigns, cites college costs CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. -- The departure of NASA #39;s boss comes at a challenging time as the space agency struggles to ditch the mentality that lost Columbia and get its remaining shuttles flying again, while aiming for the moon and Mars. | 3 |
10 percent of birds will be extinct by 2100: World News: Washington, Dec 14 : A new futuristic study by researchers at the University of Stanford is predicting that by the time the next century rolls around, a number of bird species that we take for granted today will become mere pictures in bird | 3 |
Google, 5 big libraries team to offer books Google Inc. has partnered with five of the world #39;s leading libraries, including those at Stanford and Harvard, to digitally scan their collections so that the books can be searched, and in many cases read, online free of charge. | 3 |
Gamers rush to buy new Sony PSP Gamers have bought almost all of the first batch of Sony #39;s new PlayStation Portable (PSP) games console, which went on sale in Japan on Sunday. | 3 |
Spirit claims Mars water prize Robot Mars rover Spirit has so far been eclipsed in its mission by its quot;twin quot; Opportunity, which found rich evidence of a wet history at its landing site. | 3 |
MPAA to serve lawsuits on BitTorrent servers The Motion Picture Ass. of America (MPAA) will today launch a legal attack on BitTorrent users in a bid to prevent ripped DVDs being shared across the network. | 3 |
Go-ahead for new internet names The internet could soon have two new domain names, aimed at mobile services and the jobs market. The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (Icann) has given preliminary approval to two new addresses - . | 3 |
IBM claims virtualisation victory over EMC IBM is claiming a storage management victory over EMCand has said it can control its entire line of storage arrays with the latest version of its San Volume Controller appliance. | 3 |
Texas Tops Michigan Dusty Mangum kicks a 37-yard field goal as time expires and No. 6 Texas, behind quarterback Vince Young, edges No. 13 Michigan, 38-37. | 1 |
Decision to Place Pinochet Under House Arrest Suspended A Chilean court has suspended the order to place former Chilean dictator, Augusto Pinochet under house arrest for crimes he committed during quot;Operation Condor quot;, aiming to remove his opponents in Latin America, between 1970 and 1980 at the request of his | 0 |
Airlines Expect #36;5 Bln Loss in '04 --IATA (Reuters) Reuters - International airlines are heading for a\near #36;5 billion loss this year, largely due to the oil price\rise, the chief economist of the industry's global body IATA\said on Tuesday. | 2 |
Sluggish holiday sales leave retailers uneasy (USATODAY.com) USATODAY.com - The holiday shopping season is hurtling toward its close, but demand remains soft and inconsistent. With just 11 days before Christmas - and heading into the last full weekend of shopping - retailers have been steadily easing prices. But a burst of late spending has yet to materialize. | 2 |
Rain, Flooding Hinders Asia's Tsunami Relief BANGKOK (Reuters) - Heavy rains and fresh floods disrupted aid to Asia's tsunami-hit villages on Sunday as the U.N. refugee agency started a 400-ton airlift as part of a \$2 billion relief operation to save millions struggling to survive. | 0 |
US Shares Poised to Start Slightly Weaker LONDON (Reuters) - U.S. shares were poised to start slightly weaker on Tuesday as investors look past potential merger activity to a Federal Reserve that is expected to raise borrowing costs. | 2 |
Israel accused over Syria blast Syria has blamed Israel for a car bomb which exploded in its capital Damascus, wounding three people. The bomb went off soon after a Palestinian man got out of the car with his wife and daughter. | 0 |
Dollar Holds Fire Ahead of Fed LONDON (Reuters) - The dollar held steady against major currencies on Tuesday as markets waited to see what the Federal Reserve says about the U.S. economy after an expected interest rate rise later in the session. | 2 |
Fiat and GM to mull car unit fate Fiat will meet car giant GM on Tuesday in an attempt to reach agreement over the future of the Italian firm's loss-making auto group. | 2 |
Powell Not Interested in Political Office (AP) AP - As he prepares to end his tenure as secretary of state, Colin Powell is ruling out a run for political office. | 0 |
Microsoft takes on desktop search Microsoft has entered the desktop search fray, releasing a test version of its tool to find documents, e-mails and other files on a PC hard drive. | 3 |
Samsung, Sony agree to share patent Seoul, December 14: South Korea #39;s Samsung electronics and Sony of Japan on Tuesday singed an agreement to share patents for digital technologies in major products, Samsung said. | 3 |
Sudan committed to peace in south and pursuing solution to Darfur crisis (AFP) AFP - Sudanese President Omar al-Beshir reiterated his commitment to implementing peace accords with southern rebels and to pursuing a settlement to the Darfur conflict. | 0 |
Google to scan books from UM, other big libraries ANN ARBOR, Mich. Google is trying to establish an online reading room for the University of Michigan library and four other major libraries. | 3 |
Technology ; Sony and Samsung to cross-license patents Sony and Samsung started negotiations on the cross-licensing deal in December 2003. The agreement is broad, covering 94 percent of Sony #39;s 13,000 US registered patents, and a similar percentage of Samsung #39;s 11,000 US registered patents. | 3 |
Samsung, Sony sign extensive cross-licensing agreement LONDON - After a year of negotiations two of the world #39;s giants of consumer electronics, Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd. and Sony Corp. | 3 |
Toshiba Leads Industry in Bringing Perpendicular Data Recording to <b>...</b> TOKYO --(Business Wire)-- Dec. 13, 2004 -- Perpendicular Recording Technology Achieves 1.8-Inch Drive That Holds the Industry Largest 80-Gigabytes of Information. | 3 |
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