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Concorde crash #39;due to US firm #39; A French legal inquiry into the July 2000 Concorde crash near Paris has placed much of the blame on the American carrier, Continental Airlines. | 0 |
Australia Minister Doesn't Want IAEA Post (AP) AP - Australia's foreign minister said Wednesday that the United States had asked him to challenge International Atomic Energy Agency head Mohamed ElBaradei for the top job at the U.N. nuclear watchdog, but he had declined. | 0 |
N.Korea: Japan Sanctions Would Be War Declaration TOKYO (Reuters) - North Korea warned Japan on Wednesday that it would treat economic sanctions as a "declaration of war" and threatened to try to exclude Tokyo from six-party talks on Pyongyang's nuclear arms programs. | 0 |
Fed Panel Lifts Rates and Says More Increases Are Probable As expected, the central bank raised the federal funds rate on overnight loans by a quarter point, to 2.25 percent. | 2 |
US Central Bank Boosts Interest Rates Again The American central bank, the Federal Reserve, Tuesday raised short-term interest rates for the fifth time in six months. Even with the quarter point increase short-term rates are a still-very-low 2.25 percent. | 2 |
Airlines #39;end 2004 \$5bn in red #39; The world #39;s airline industry is set to rack up losses of almost \$5bn (2.6bn, 3.6bn euros) this year, global airline body AITA has forecast. | 2 |
Jobs Survey Mixed Bag Overall, the results of the latest Manpower Employment Survey suggest that US employers plan to increase hiring after the new year. | 2 |
Google plans to bring libraries online Google is back with another project that will help users find priceless information on the Internet, via Googles Print Program. | 3 |
Microsoft Enters Desktop Search with MSN Toolbar Suite The MSN Toolbar Suite is built on the current Windows security and privacy model. Microsoft officials said the tool respects the privacy of multiple users on a single PC by using the Windows | 3 |
MPAA targets BitTorrent BitTorrent is a wonderful way to download files with greater reliability than other conventional means, but of course that means that it is used greatly for piracy... apparently. | 3 |
Hopes Dim As Players, Owners Reject Plans to End Lockout NHL Players Association President Bob Goodenow gestures while speaking at a press conference after meeting with NHL Commissioner Gary Bettman at the NHL offices in Toronto, December 14, 2004. | 1 |
Red Sox wish Pedro well As far as the Red Sox are concerned, there are no hard feelings for Pedro Martinez. Team president/CEO Larry Lucchino says he, principal owner John Henry | 1 |
French Report on Concorde Crash Blames Debris and Structural Flaw A metal strip dropped on the runway by a Continental Airlines plane was a major element in the crash of an Air France Concorde jet near Paris in July 2000, but a previously | 0 |
Family wins inquiry into killing of prisoner son THE family of an Iraqi civilian allegedly unlawfully killed by British troops while in custody won a human-rights ruling yesterday, which opens the way for an independent investigation into his death. | 0 |
Comet mission set for 2005 launch Nasa gives details of a space mission to crash a projectile into a comet and peel away its outer skin to look inside. | 3 |
Sharks respond to magnetic lines Hawaiian scientists provide hard evidence to support the theory that sharks navigate with a biological compass. | 3 |
G.M.-Fiat Talks Fail to Resolve Rift Over Partnership Agreement The high-stakes standoff between General Motors and Fiat over the terms of a 2000 partnership moved a step closer to the courtroom on Tuesday. | 2 |
Not Everybody Loves Raymond When Raymond Gilmartin became chairman of the drug maker Merck, it was close to introducing several new medicines. Now, the company is in crisis. | 2 |
Nortel reports loss in Q3, sees pickup in Q4 Amid continuing problems with the release of its financial statements, Nortel Networksreported a loss for this year's third quarter, coupled with a drop in sales from the second quarter, but added that it expects improvements in fourth-quarter revenue. | 3 |
Microsoft issues five bulletins on Windows flaws Microsofton Tuesday released five Security Bulletins warning of several vulnerabilities that put computers running Windows at risk of attack. | 3 |
Sun refreshes development tools line Refreshing its development tools arsenal, Sun Microsystems on Tuesday revealed plans for upcoming versions of Java Studio Creator and is unleashing upgrades to the NetBeans open source platform and Java Studio Enterprise. | 3 |
Intellisync to give push e-mail capability for low-cost phones The wireless airwaves may get a bit more crowded next year following the announcement that Intellisync's goAnywhere technology, unveiled this week, will give users of low-cost feature phones the same push e-mail capability that is now only available on pricier smart phones. | 3 |
Ask Jeeves to boost search site with portal features Ask Jeevesis actively looking at strengthening its flagship search engine Web site with features, services and technologies found elsewhere in its online network. | 3 |
Microsoft Issues Five Bulletins on Windows Flaws Desktops, servers affected, but no vulnerabilities deemed critical. | 3 |
First Look: Service Speeds Wireless Info Gathering Pocket Express makes it easier and faster to get the info you need on connected handheld. | 3 |
For Sprint and Nextel, the Struggle Is Ahead which could come as early as today - they will have completed the easy part. The harder part, industry executives and analysts | 2 |
German Carmakers Catch Hybrid Fever Caught off guard by the success of Toyota #39;s hybrid Prius model, German carmakers are racing to catch-up. DaimlerChrysler and GM announced plans on Monday to jointly produce hybrid technology for their cars and trucks. | 2 |
German recycling violates EU law Parts of Germany #39;s complex can and bottle recycling system violate European Union law, according to a ruling yesterday by the European Court of Justice, the EU #39;s highest court. | 2 |
Court Upholds Patent Ruling Against Maker of BlackBerry A United States appeals court upheld a finding of patent infringement against Research In Motion Ltd. yesterday, but struck down part of the ruling and sent it back to a lower court for further proceedings. | 2 |
Blockbuster to scrap late fees Blockbuster, the video rental company, yesterday said it plans to eliminate late fees as the chain struggles to stem the decline in the film rental market. | 2 |
Pearson sells 743m stake in Spanish media group Pearson, the publishingand business informationgroup, insisted it remained committed to financialnewspapers in spite of its decision tosell a controlling stake | 2 |
Not Everybody Loves Raymond Finding people who like the way he has run Merck, the giant drug maker, is much harder. Mr. Gilmartin has been chairman of Merck since November 1994. | 2 |
Bobcats Edge Hornets, 94-93 (Overtime) (AP) AP - Emeka Okafor hit a pair of free throws with 5 seconds left in overtime to give Charlotte's new NBA team a win over its old one as the Bobcats pulled out a 94-93 win over the New Orleans Hornets on Tuesday night. | 1 |
Mexico 'Dirty War' Tale Ends Happily, Victim Found MEXICO CITY (Reuters) - Aleida Gallangos met her brother in Washington last week for the first time since he was kidnapped by Mexican police 30 years ago, closing one chapter in the annals of Mexico's "dirty war" on a rare joyous note. | 0 |
Knicks Defeat Nets, 87-79 (AP) AP - Jamal Crawford scored 30 points in a game otherwise defined by offensive ineptitude #151; such as the New York Knicks holding the New Jersey Nets without a basket for 15 minutes #151; in an 87-79 victory Tuesday night. | 1 |
Google to scan universities #39; library books By Paul Taylor in New York and Chris Nuttall in San Francisco. Google, the leading service for finding information on the internet, yesterday set out ambitious plans to become a catalogue and digital library for world literature. | 3 |
NHL labour talks hit roadblock after sides reject each other #39;s <b>...</b> TORONTO (CP) - The NHL season isn #39;t dead yet, but it is on its last legs. The cautious optimism accompanied by last week #39;s offer by the NHL Players #39; Association was replaced by doom and gloom Tuesday as both | 1 |
Martnez #39;s Being a Met Rests on a Physical Exam Pedro Martnez went on television in the Dominican Republic yesterday to say what many in New York were waiting to hear and confirm what the Mets would not. | 1 |
Good News (Wells), Bad News (Schilling) Almost two months after defying the Curse of the Bambino and only one day after saying goodbye to Pedro Martnez, the Boston Red Sox kept moving on yesterday by welcoming the living embodiment | 1 |
76ers 110, Nuggets 102 Allen Iverson had 31 points and 10 rebounds, and reserve Willie Green scored all of his season-high 17 points in the final 16 minutes, helping the Philadelphia 76ers overcome an 18-point second-half deficit in a 110-102 victory over the Denver Nuggets on | 1 |
Stocks Open Higher in Tokyo on Key Survey (AP) AP - Tokyo stocks edged higher Wednesday morning as a key economic survey came within expectations. The dollar was up against the Japanese yen. | 0 |
Saddam officials to be put on trial next week Iraq said yesterday it had captured a top foreign-based supporter of the anti-government insurgency and would begin to try former figures of Saddam Hussein #39;s regime next week. | 0 |
Taliban suspects arrested Information from a man caught in a vehicle loaded with explosives led to the arrests of two senior Taliban military commanders believed to be responsible for a series of terror attacks in southern Afghanistan, an official said yesterday. | 0 |
Fire Breaks Out in Turkish Movie Theater A fire broke out at a movie theater during a gala premiere Tuesday night, injuring dozens of people - none seriously, news reports said. | 0 |
Australia boosts anti-terror defences with new maritime security zone (AFP) AFP - Australia is to boost its defence against terrorism by creating a 1000-nautical mile security zone around its coast to protect its shipping, ports and oil rigs from attack, it was reported here. | 0 |
Philippoussis Given Wildcard for Sydney International SYDNEY (Reuters) - Former Wimbledon and U.S. Open runner-up Mark Philippoussis has been given a wildcard entry for next month's Sydney International. | 1 |
Martnez's Being a Met Rests on a Physical Exam If Pedro Martnez passes Wednesday's physical, he is expected to be introduced in a news conference at Shea Stadium on Thursday. | 1 |
Good News (Wells), Bad News (Schilling) The left-hander David Wells passed a physical and was introduced at a Fenway Park news conference, and the timing could not have been more striking. | 1 |
For the Red Sox, Loyalty Is a Dish Not Served at All There is too much of the one-sided version of the story going around, especially in Boston, now that Pedro Martnez has said he is on his way to Shea Stadium. | 1 |
Martnez Leaves Fans Betwixt, Between BOSTON, Dec. 14 - Most New Englanders are walking around with more cheer and about \$20 less in their pockets this holiday season. They are reliving the gift of their dreams - a Red Sox world championship highlight video on DVD. | 1 |
Goalie Battles Toughest Foe Bowling Green's starting goaltender, the senior captain Jordan Sigalet, was found to have multiple sclerosis. | 1 |
Added Cargo Flights to Cut Down on Risky Truck Convoys The Air Force is expanding its airlift of equipment to Iraq to reduce the amount of military cargo hauled over land routes. | 0 |
Eskimos Seek to Recast Global Warming as a Rights Issue The Inuit of the Arctic plan to seek a ruling from the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights that the U.S. is threatening their existence. | 0 |
Wrenching Tale by an Afghan Immigrant Strikes a Chord "The Kite Runner," by Khaled Hosseini, a previously unknown son of an Afghan political refugee, has captivated reading groups across the country. | 0 |
Software Sector Finally Enters a Merger Phase There could be no more striking evidence of the trend toward consolidation in the computer software industry than the news of the last few days. | 3 |
Court Upholds Patent Ruling Against Maker of BlackBerry A United States appeals court upheld a finding of patent infringement against Research In Motion Ltd., which makes the BlackBerry data device. | 3 |
Flawed Device Places F.D.A. Under Scrutiny The F.D.A.'s oversight of a defibrillator may reveal shortcomings in its regulation of medical devices. | 2 |
October Trade Gap a Record, Up 9 in Month The trade deficit hit another record high in October, with imports outpacing exports by \$55.46 billion. The 9 percent increase from September was higher than expected | 2 |
France and Germany Get Deficit Reprieve The European Commission froze its threat of fines against France and Germany on Tuesday, granting the two biggest economies in the euro zone an extra year to bring down their bloated budget deficits. | 2 |
McLeish says Novo ban is a tit-for-tat action ALEX McLeish, the Rangers manager, last night accused the Scottish Football Association of administering quot;tit-for-tat quot; punishment after Nacho Novo was given a three-match ban for his part in an incident during the controversial Old Firm match last month. | 1 |
Browns continue to pluck Ravens Quarterback Jeff Garcia and center Jeff Faine were placed on injured reserve, and the Browns continued to pluck talent from the Baltimore Ravens in a flurry of roster moves Tuesday. | 1 |
31 dead in passenger train collision in India Two trains collided head-on yesterday in northern India, killing at least 31 people in a crash that the railway minister called quot;brutal murder quot;. | 0 |
No. 13 Louisville Tops N.C. A T, 85-51 (AP) AP - Larry O'Bannon scored a season-high 25 points and grabbed 11 rebounds to lead No. 13 Louisville to an 85-51 victory over North Carolina A amp;T on Tuesday night. | 1 |
Tokyo Stocks Edge Up TOKYO (Reuters) - Japan's Nikkei average edged up 0.26 percent by midsession on Wednesday after the Bank of Japan's quarterly "tankan" survey showed a weakening of corporate sentiment that was in line with expectations. | 2 |
Bombardier sacks its chief executive Canadian train and plane manufacturer Bombardier Inc fired its chief executive officer on Monday and its share price dropped to record lows. | 2 |
GM-Fiat Talks Fail to Resolve Rift Over Partnership Agreement The high-stakes standoff between General Motors and Fiat over the terms of a 2000 partnership moved a step closer to the courtroom on Tuesday. | 2 |
North California Grocery Union Sets Talks Deadline Unionized Northern California grocery workers union set a Sunday deadline for contract talks and said they would hold a strike vote next week if necessary. | 2 |
One in Four Bird Species May Die Out This Century By the end of the century one in 10 species of birds in the world will be extinct and a further 15 percent will be on the brink of extinction. | 3 |
FISCHLER: Cost-certainty is still the crux of this NHL malaise Is the NHL season over because of the league #39;s rejection of the union offer - and vice versa? But the sands are flowing through big-league hockey #39;s hourglass. | 1 |
Israel offers early troop withdrawal Israel is prepared to withdraw troops from Palestinian areas well ahead of a planned pullout from the Gaza Strip and parts of the West Bank next summer, Israeli Defense Minister Shaul Mofaz said. | 0 |
Council Continues Debate The D.C. Council continued to debate late Tuesday night over legislation that would clear the way to build a new baseball stadium for the Nationals in Southeast. | 1 |
Living the High Life The World Anti-Doping Agency is considering whether speedskating athletes should be allowed to use oxygen-deprived chambers designed to build endurance. | 1 |
Murky Future for Tice His contract status, public comments regarding the now-filled Washington Huskies job and another disappointing season have Vikings coach Mike Tice on thin ice. | 1 |
Rebels Target Erickson Ole Miss has received permission from the San Francisco 49ers to speak with head coach Dennis Erickson. | 1 |
United Airlines nears deal on more cost cuts United Airlines, the bankrupt carrier, yesterday made its first progress in efforts to achieve a second round of labour cost cuts when it said it had reached a tentative agreement | 2 |
Pig Emissions Part of Global Warming (AP) AP - Pig manure in Chile will keep neon lights glowing on Tokyo's Ginza in years to come. It's a grand north-south tradeoff to slow global warming: You reduce your "greenhouse gas" emissions so I don't have to cut back on mine. | 3 |
Comet mission set for 2005 launch Nasa scientists have been giving details of a space mission to crash a projectile into a comet, peeling away its outer skin in order to look inside. | 3 |
Szczerbiak Scores 28 Points; Wolves Beat Blazers Wally Szczerbiak, Kevin Garnett and Sam Cassell were productive in Minnesota #39;s 100-89 win over Portland. Szczerbiak scored a season-high 28 points in helping Timberwolves coach Flip Saunders earn his 400th career victory. | 1 |
At Least Five Dead in Another India Train Accident An express train ran into a jeep in southern India on Wednesday, killing five people, a day after two passenger trains collided head-on in the north of the country. | 0 |
Turkish captain foils EU #39;s would-be defenders As a young man, Recep Tayyip Erdogan was a gifted footballer; but not quite good enough to turn professional. So he concentrated on politics instead. | 0 |
F. Poe dies from effects of stroke MANILA Fernando Poe Jr., the popular actor who challenged President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo in the presidential elections this year, died early Tuesday. | 0 |
The Knicks Make It Seem Like Old Times For half of the first quarter, the Nets looked like the team that had dominated the Knicks for the past three seasons. But with Jason Kidd still limited to 20 | 1 |
Tokyo Stocks Edge Up (Reuters) Reuters - Japan's Nikkei average edged up 0.26\percent by midsession on Wednesday after the Bank of Japan's\quarterly "tankan" survey showed a weakening of corporate\sentiment that was in line with expectations. | 2 |
Merger Puts Nextel at Crossroads Daniel F. Akerson says the decisions he made as chief executive of Nextel Communications Inc. were all about survival. The choices facing the company in recent weeks, he adds, are a matter | 2 |
U.N. Troops Fight Way Into Gang-Held Haitian Slum (Reuters) Reuters - U.N. troops, backed by\armored vehicles and helicopters, fought their way into a\lawless slum in the Haitian capital on Tuesday in their first\attempt to end a killing spree by warring street gangs. | 0 |
Timberwolves 100, Trail Blazers 89 Wally Szczerbiak scored a season-high 28 points, including the 5,000th of his career, to lead the Minnesota Timberwolves to a 100-89 victory over the Portland Trail Blazers on Tuesday night. | 1 |
Bobcats 94 Hornets 93, overtime CHARLOTTE, NC Charlotte #39;s new team beat the old one, with the Bobcats outlasting the New Orleans Hornets 94-to-93 in overtime. | 1 |
Pacers Top Hawks 108-97 in OT (AP) AP - Jamaal Tinsley scored a season-high 29 points and the Indiana Pacers snapped a seven-game losing streak Tuesday night, beating the Atlanta Hawks 108-97 in overtime. | 1 |
At Least Five Dead in Another India Train Accident NEW DELHI (Reuters) - An express train ran into a jeep in southern India on Wednesday, killing five people, a day after two passenger trains collided head-on in the north of the country. | 0 |
US rate now 2 to choke inflation WASHINGTON - The US Federal Reserve Board late yesterday boosted short-term interest rates for the fifth time in a row, warning of higher rates next year as it abandons easy money to head off inflation. | 2 |
Wolfensohn May Step Down From World Bank (AP) AP - James Wolfensohn said Sunday he anticipates bowing out in 2005 as World Bank president and not serving a third five-year term, but would do whatever shareholders ask of him. | 0 |
Powell, Gov. Bush Prepare for Asia Trip (AP) AP - Secretary of State Colin Powell and President Bush's brother, Florida Gov. Jeb Bush, are leading a team of experts traveling to South Asia to get a close-up look at the devastation. | 0 |
CBM talks focus on notification of tests: Up gradation of hotlines <b>...</b> ISLAMABAD, Dec 14: The second round of Indo-Pakistan talks on nuclear confidence-building measures (CBMs) that began here on Tuesday zeroed in on formalization of pre-notification of missiles | 0 |
Blast in Kandahar Wounds at Least Three Afghans (Reuters) Reuters - A huge explosion rocked the southern\Afghanistan city of Kandahar on Wednesday and at least three\Afghan soldiers were wounded, the city's police chief said. | 0 |
Hollywood Sues Computer Server Operators (AP) AP - Hollywood movie studios on Tuesday sued scores of operators of computer servers that help relay digital movie files across online file-sharing networks. | 3 |
Google Move Could Commercialize Libraries (AP) AP - The Internet company that famously promised to "do no evil" is on a new mission to digitize the collections of some of the nation's leading research institutions and establish a massive online reading room. | 3 |
Fed Raises Benchmark A 5th Time Federal Reserve officials raised a key short-term interest rate yesterday for the fifth time this year, and indicated they will gradually move rates higher next year to keep inflation under control as the economy expands. | 2 |
Airlines #39; losses expected to hit \$4.8bn Geneva - The world #39;s major airlines were expected to rack up about \$4.8 billion (R27.3 billion) in losses this year and would climb back to profit next year only if oil prices fell, the top industry body said yesterday. | 2 |
Transport costs lift UK inflation to 1.5 London - Britain #39;s inflation rate hit its highest level in five months in November, pushed up by air fares and surging utility bills, official figures showed yesterday. | 2 |
Washington Passes Amended Ballpark Bill (AP) AP - The District of Columbia Council approved an amended financing plan for a ballpark for the Expos, adding provisions that major league baseball is likely to reject and could jeopardize the proposed move of the franchise. | 1 |
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