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Berlusconi Accused of Using Bill to Save Buddy ROME (Reuters) - The Italian government on Wednesday sped up parliamentary approval of a law that could overturn the corruption convictions of a close friend of Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi, sparking fury among opposition politicians. | 0 |
Saban meets with Dolphins LSU head football coach Nick Saban met with officials of the Miami Dolphins Tuesday evening about the team #39;s coaching position, university officials announced Wednesday. | 1 |
Signs point to Anelka exit NICOLAS Anelka #39;s future with Manchester City is in serious doubt after chairman John Wardle admitted for the first time the club would consider bids for him. | 1 |
Report: Renteria heads to Beantown Boston, MA (Sports Network) - If you can #39;t beat #39;em, join #39;em. That #39;s exactly what free agent shortstop Edgar Renteria did on Wednesday by agreeing to a four-year deal with the Boston Red Sox. | 1 |
Spanish coach facing action in race row Spanish national team coach Luis Aragones faces a formal investigation after Spain #39;s Football Federation decided to open disciplinary proceedings over racist comments about Thierry Henry of France and Arsenal. | 1 |
EU Urges Liberia to Improve Election Laws Fast AMSTERDAM (Reuters) - The European Union urged Liberia, struggling to emerge from more than 10 years of civil war, to bring its election laws up to international standards ahead of an October vote. | 0 |
Chemical Ali Will Be the First to Go on Trial The former Iraqi general known as Chemical Ali, who is accused of using chemical weapons attacks to kill thousands of Kurds, will be the first of Saddam Husseins cohorts to stand trial next week, a government official said today. | 0 |
Pakistan and India to start nuclear hotline, no deal on missile <b>...</b> ISLAMABAD (AFP) - Pakistan and India agreed to push forward plans for a nuclear hotline after two days of talks but failed to reach a deal on advance warning of ballistic missile tests, officials said. | 0 |
Polish Weapons Maker Signs Deal With Iraq A Polish weapons maker signed a multimillion dollar contract Wednesday to equip the new Iraqi army with helicopters, machine guns and ambulances, a company official said. | 0 |
Judge Throws Out Claim Against Google Ads Google won a major legal victory today when a federal judge said the search engine could continue to sell ads triggered by searches using trademarked company names. | 2 |
Christmas-New Year's Travel to Set Record NEW YORK (Reuters) - Americans will travel in record numbers this holiday season, thanks partly to Christmas and New Year's landing on the weekend, the AAA said Wednesday in releasing a travel survey. | 2 |
Airbus Forecasts Big Demand LONDON (Reuters) - Planemaker Airbus said on Wednesday it expected demand for 16,600 passenger planes over the next 20 years, including a sharp rise in demand for very large airliners such as its new A380 doubledecker which is due to fly in 2006. | 2 |
\$12 million payment over allegations in sales to military <b>...</b> BOSTON (CBS.MW) -- First Command has reached a \$12 million settlement with federal regulators for making misleading statements and omitting important information when selling mutual funds to US military personnel. | 2 |
Aragones under investigation for comments Madrid, Spain (Sports Network) - The Spanish Football Federation has launched an investigation into national team coach Luis Aragones #39; racial comments. | 1 |
Two Greek bus hijackers demand ransom and plane Two armed hijackers released another two men from a bus in Athens in a fourth batch, bringing the total number of the released hostage to 12 , including 6 men and 6 women, police said Wednesday. | 0 |
Bush Welcomes Scandal-Plagued Berlusconi (AP) AP - Days after he was acquitted in a corruption trial, Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi got a warm welcome Wednesday from President Bush, who is grateful to Italy as a rare European ally willing to send troops to Iraq. | 0 |
Google Scores Court Victory Over GEICO ALEXANDRIA (Reuters) - A federal judge on Wednesday dismissed a key element of insurer GEICO's trademark infringement case against online search engine Google Inc. <A HREF="http://www.investor.reuters.com/FullQuote.aspx?ticker=GOOG.O target=/stocks/quickinfo/fullquote">GOOG.O</A>. | 2 |
Sprint buys Breeders Cup sponsor Nextel for \$35-billion Sprint Corp. is to acquire Nextel Communications Inc., title sponsor of the Breeders Cup Distaff (G1), in a \$35-billion deal that will create the nations third-largest wireless telephone service provider | 2 |
Bush pledges to quot;take on quot; deficit in hopes of supporting dollar WHITE HOUSE President Bush is pledging to quot;take on quot; the nation #39;s huge deficits -- in hopes of shoring up the sagging US dollar. | 2 |
Italy : Gucci brand expects to double sales by 2011 Italian luxury goods group Gucci Group has ruled out acquisitions and disposals for the next three years and predicted annual sales growth of at least 10 percent. | 2 |
Movie Makers Target BitTorrent December 15, 2004 -- (WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) -- According to reports release on Tuesday Hollywood movies studios sued numerous operators of computer servers that help transfer digital movie files across online file-sharing networks. | 3 |
Evidence for water on Mars flows This week, scientists f urther confirmed the presence of water on Mars, almost a year after the Mars Exploration Rovers landed on the fourth rocky planet from the sun. | 3 |
Cassini #39;s First Flyby of Dione Summary - (Dec 15, 2004) Just days after completing its second flyby of Titan, Saturn #39;s largest moon, Cassini proceeded on to its next target: Dione, Saturn #39;s 4th largest moon. | 3 |
NHL #39;s quot;Quest for the Cap quot; continues I guess we were all just very desperate and very stupid. Just last week there was that ray of hope that the National Hockey League labor strife could be nearing an end. | 1 |
Dolphins talk to LSU #39;s Saban about coaching vacancy LSU coach Nick Saban and Dolphins officials met for several hours Tuesday night about the team #39;s vacant head-coaching position. | 1 |
Blunkett is expected to resign Home Secretary David Blunkett is expected to quit on Wednesday, BBC political editor Andrew Marr has said. The news comes amid claims he misused his office to fast-track a visa for his former lover #39;s nanny. | 0 |
Iran rejects negotiations with US on N issue TEHRAN: Iran Foreign Minister Kamal Kharazi on Wednesday rejected any talks with the United States on the standoff over Iran #39;s nuclear programme because of Washington #39;s hostile attitude towards the Islamic republic. | 0 |
Body of Turk Engineer Found in Afghanistan The latest abduction of a foreigner in Afghanistan - a Turkish engineer working on a US-sponsored road project - ended when the kidnappers killed him, apparently so he wouldn #39;t slow them down with police hot on their trail. | 0 |
Police probe BNP mosque leaflet Police are investigating a British National Party leaflet posted to homes in south Wales opposing plans for a new mosque. Anti-racism campaigners in Swansea have handed copies to South Wales Police. | 0 |
Oil Up 6 Pct as Heating Oil Stocks Fall LONDON (Reuters) - Oil prices surged more than two dollars on Wednesday as the U.S. government reported a fall in heating oil stocks and cold weather gripped the U.S. Northeast, the world's biggest heating fuel market. | 2 |
Mixed ruling in RIM patent suit could affect entire wireless e <b>...</b> BlackBerry maker Research In Motion Ltd. suffered a somewhat mixed ruling in its legal battle with patent holding company NTP Inc. | 2 |
Japan firms to increase spending TOKYO Managers at Japan #39;s largest companies were less optimistic about their business prospects in the last quarter but still plan big increases in capital investment this year, according to a central bank survey disclosed on Wednesday that offered hope | 2 |
Brokerage Stocks Rise on Lehman Results Lehman Brothers Holdings Inc. posted fourth-quarter profit Wednesday that trounced Wall Street forecasts due to an unexpected revival of its investment banking business, a signal that could bode well for some of its rivals. | 2 |
Erickson turns down Ole Miss coaching spot 49ers officials have told FOXSports.com that 49ers head coach Dennis Erickson met with his players this morning and informed them that he was staying put, turning down the Ole Miss head coaching job. | 1 |
Phonak appeals license refusal GENEVA -- The Phonak cycling team wants to overturn a decision in which its racing license was denied because of a doping scandal. | 1 |
British minister and Blair ally Blunkett resigns LONDON - A Cabinet minister embroiled in the messy fallout of an affair with a married woman resigned on Wednesday, his department said. | 0 |
Britain warns travellers of Indonesia terrorism risk Britons travelling to Indonesia over Christmas and the New Year face a quot;heightened risk quot; of terrorist attacks, the Foreign Office in London has warned. | 0 |
Iran conditions talks with US on change of Washington #39;s attitude Iranian Foreign Minister Kamal Kharazi on Wednesday conditioned negotiations with the United States on a change in Washington #39;s attitude toward Tehran, the official IRNA news agency reported. | 0 |
Pakistan recognizes China as market economy, nuclear plant deal signed (AFP) AFP - Pakistan recognized China as a market economy Wednesday and Beijing promised visiting Prime Minister Shaukat Aziz 150 million dollars in aid to build a nuclear power plant. | 0 |
Prime minister announces new 1,700-kilometre security zone off Australia (Canadian Press) Canadian Press - SYDNEY, Australia (AP) - Australia plans to enforce a maritime security zone more than 1,700 kilometres out to sea, far beyond its territorial waters, in a move to boost defences against possible terror attacks on its soil and offshore oil and gas facilities, Prime Minister John Howard said Wednesday. | 0 |
UK Official Confirms Minister Blunkett Resigned LONDON (Reuters) - Senior British government minister David Blunkett, a trusted ally of Prime Minister Tony Blair, resigned on Wednesday, a government official confirmed. | 0 |
Italian Nurse Kills Six Patients to Boost Ego LECCO, Italy (Reuters) - A nurse has killed six patients in a provincial hospital in northern Italy because she wanted to "feel more important," prosecutors said on Wednesday. | 0 |
In Colorado, a merger of equals and opposites Sprint and Nextel Communications each have 15 retail stores in Colorado and both are known for offering a popular push-to-talk service, or walkie-talkie-like product that | 2 |
AOL Fraud Claim Settled Time Warner will be paying \$210 million as part of a settlement for securities fraud charges leveled by the US Department of Justice. | 2 |
Nokia unveils program to identify counterfeit batteries WASHINGTON-Nokia Corp. of Finland today unveiled a new program to help consumers identify original batteries of the No. 1 mobile-phone manufacturer, an action that comes in the face of reports of exploding | 3 |
EPA Says Particle Pollution Down in Some Areas The average level of a deadly form of air pollution dropped in the US from 1999 to 2003 as new pollution controls made strides in battling the nation #39;s air quality problem, the Environmental Protection Agency said Tuesday. | 3 |
Coach tells players he #39;s not going to Mississippi San Francisco 49ers coach Dennis Erickson informed this players during a Wednesday morning team meeting that he will not leave to become the new head coach at the University of Mississippi. | 1 |
Pedro On The Way As every second ticks away, the Mets and Pedro Martinez get a little closer to consummating what will amount to a four-year marriage - for better, for worse, for partial tears, quot;Who #39;s Your Daddy quot; and the presence of pint-sized Nelson de la Rosa. | 1 |
NASCAR Says Merger Won't Hurt Nextel Cup (AP) AP - NASCAR is not expecting any immediate changes to its top-tier racing series following the merger between telecommunications giant Sprint Corp. and Nextel Communications Inc. | 1 |
Cricket: SA 'to seize initiative' Andrew Hall says South Africa plan to take advantage of England's inadequate preparation in the first Test. | 0 |
Govt Signs Airbus Deal Government has signed a Declaration of Intent with a European aircraft manufacturer that will see Pretoria taking stock of between eight and 14 military airbuses between 2010 and 2014. | 2 |
In-flight Cell Phones JACKSONVILLE, FL -- Everywhere you look and everywhere you go these days, people are using cell phones. Right now, air travelers can only use their cells phones before their flights take off, but that could soon change. | 2 |
Geico-Google trademark suit goes to court A federal judge in Alexandria, Va., will hear opening arguments today in a case that pits Geico against Google. Geico, the auto insurer owned by Berkshire Hathaway, sued Google in May for trademark infringement. | 2 |
IDC Says Linux Market Will Top \$35 Billion by 2008 The overall market revenue for Linux desktops, servers and packaged software will exceed US\$35 billion by 2008, research published today has claimed. | 3 |
NASCAR confident Nextel Cup series will not be harmed by Sprint <b>...</b> NASCAR is not expecting any immediate changes to its top-tier racing series following the merger between telecommunications giant Sprint Corp. | 1 |
Europe ; Bus Hijackers Hold 11 in Athens, Demand \$1 Million As the standoff gripped the nation, Prime Minister Costas Karamanlis postponed his departure for a European Union summit in Brussels by one day until Thursday. | 0 |
Abbas Needs Support In His Push for Peace By the News-Register. Mahmoud Abbas, the interim leader of the Palestinian Authority, has made it clear that he believes terrorist attacks aimed at Israelis must end if there is to be peace between his people and Israel. | 0 |
Top British Official Resigns Amid Scandal A cabinet minister embroiled in the messy fallout of an affair with a married woman resigned Wednesday, his department said. | 0 |
Washington Mayor: Baseball Deal Near Dead (Reuters) Reuters - Washington, D.C., Mayor Anthony\Williams on Wednesday said the deal to bring Major League\Baseball back to the U.S. capital was close to dead after the\city council changed the plan to require private financing. | 2 |
Report: Renteria OKs Deal With Red Sox All-Star shortstop Edgar Renteria told The Boston Globe he has agreed to a \$40 million, four-year contract with the Red Sox, the paper reported on its Web site Wednesday. | 0 |
Mercosur Trade Talks Begin Amid Bickering Top officials from Argentina, Brazil, Paraguay and Uruguay gathered Wednesday for high-level trade talks ahead of a two-day summit taking place 10 years after leaders officially created South America's Mercosur zone. | 0 |
Nextel the Big Winner in Sprint Merger Faced with growing pressure to upgrade their networks and compete with larger rivals, Sprint and Nextel Communications are poised to join forces in a \$35 billion takeover that will give the combined entity a value of around \$70 billion. | 2 |
Fed increases rates by a quarter point The US Federal Reserve yesterday raised interest rates by a quarter point to 2.25 per cent and signalled that there had been no change in its assessment of economic conditions. | 2 |
Mexico loses ground to China in exports For the second year in a row, US imports from Mexico lost ground to China, El Universal reports. The world #39;s largest economy, the United States, took 10.7 percent | 2 |
Air traffic seen recovering steadily Air traffic is seen increasing steadily worldwide in 2004, the International Air Transport Association said Wednesday. Passenger traffic for 2004 is expected to increase by 11 percent from a year ago, the | 2 |
Time Warner to Pay \$210 Mln to Resolve Justice Department Probe Time Warner Inc., the world #39;s biggest media company, agreed to pay \$210 million to settle a US Justice Department probe into whether its America Online unit improperly booked advertising sales. | 2 |
Fee Fight For Fun It seemed amazing at first. Video rental titan Blockbuster (NYSE: BBI) is axing late fees? Considering that the company had projected \$250 million to \$300 million in late fees next year -- or an average of | 2 |
UPDATE 2-KCS buys control of Mexico railroad, resolves spat US transport group Kansas City Southern has agreed to buy a controlling stake in Mexico #39;s busiest railroad in a deal worth at least \$550 million, ending a bitter legal dispute with Mexican company TMM. | 2 |
Movie studios sue US, European file-sharing #39;parasites #39; LOS ANGELES - Movie studios have expanded their fight against illegal downloading, suing more than 100 US and European-based computer services that transmit movie files across Internet file-sharing networks. | 3 |
Desktop Search: It #39;s Getting Serious The launch of Microsoft #39;s test version throws down a gauntlet to Google. With Yahoo! and Ask Jeeves gearing up, too, a battle is brewing. | 3 |
Nokia takes aim at fake batteries Nokia on Wednesday said it will put hologram labels on cell phone batteries as part of a move to help consumers avoid counterfeits. | 3 |
Zafi Spreads Like Crazy The Zafi.d worm continued to sweep through the Internet Wednesday, creating such a flood of messages as it replicated that by one security vendor #39;s estimate, it accounted for 10 percent of the world #39;s mail. | 3 |
Apple blocks iPod Photo from RealNetworks Harmony Apple has finally done it. They have blocked the files downloaded from RealNetworks music store from playing on iPod Photo. The software update on the Apples music player will not let it now play files downloaded from Reals Harmony software. | 3 |
Lilacs say Northeast spring coming earlier As the first signs of winter push into the Northeast, researchers have some good news for fair weather fans -pring is coming earlier than it used to. | 3 |
Toshiba #39;s 1.8-Inch Hard Disks Are First To Use Perpendicular <b>...</b> You know that hard disk manufacturers have worked miracles to increase the areal density or storage capacity of any given size platter, but Toshiba Corp. | 3 |
Warner, Melodeo Join for Cell Phone Music Downloads Melodeo CEO Bill Valenti said: quot;There #39;s no denying the market potential for music delivered to mobile phones. In 2003, there were approximately 526 million wireless phones sold. | 3 |
Alternative browser chips away market share Firefox, the alternative Web browser from the nonprofit Mozilla Foundation, is chipping away at Microsoft Internet Explorer #39;s stranglehold on the market. | 3 |
SPECTOR: Proposals offer chance to compromise The chess game between the NHL and the NHLPA continued Tuesday, with the league rejecting the players #39; offer from last Thursday and tabling a counteroffer, which was in turn rejected by the NHLPA. | 1 |
Washington mayor says baseball deal nearly dead The deal to bring Major League Baseball back to Washington, DC, was described by Mayor Anthony Williams as close to dead on Wednesday after the City Council changed the plan to require private financing. | 1 |
Erickson staying in San Fran after talks with Ole Miss Ashburn, VA (Sports Network) - San Francisco 49ers head coach Dennis Erickson will remain with the team after discussing the head coaching vacancy at Ole Miss with school officials on Tuesday. | 1 |
Reds sign add relievers Weathers, Weber CINCINNATI (Ticker) - After surrendering the second-most runs in the National League last season, the Cincinnati Reds have made an attempt to improve their bullpen. | 1 |
Hard act to follow David Blunkett #39;s resignation this evening could mark the end of one of the most extraordinary political careers, which saw the former home secretary overcome disability and poverty to rise to one of the great offices of state. | 0 |
Turkish PM arrives ahead of crunch EU summit BRUSSELS, Dec 15 (AFP) - Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan arrived in Brussels late Wednesday ahead of an EU summit widely expected to give Ankara a green light to start membership negotiations with the bloc. | 0 |
Paisley claims IRA ready to decommission DUP leader, Ian Paisley has claimed confidential sources have told him the IRA may be about to go ahead and decommission its weapons. | 0 |
Sprint, Nextel to Merge UPDATED: Sprint (Quote, Chart) and Nextel (Quote, Chart) have agreed to merge, to better compete with Cinglar and Verizon Wireless for voice and data customers. | 2 |
Yukos lawyers to argue case for US bankruptcy filing WASHINGTON (AFP) - Lawyers for the Russian oil giant Yukos made their first appearance in a US court, as the company made a last-ditch effort to avert a weekend auction of its major asset. | 2 |
US FCC Aims to Lift Airborne Wireless Phone Ban Airline travelers might be able to use their mobile phones and other wireless devices in the air under a proposal put forward by US communications regulators on Wednesday to ease the current ban. | 2 |
Fighting Words: Decoding Iraq War Lingo BAGHDAD (Reuters) - "Hi Sergeant, we hear there are clashes in Baquba. Do you have any information on that?" screams the journalist down a bad mobile phone line from Baghdad. | 0 |
Send astronauts to repair Hubble The Hubble Space Telescope, arguably one of the greatest achievements of the space program, needs to be rescued. And astronauts should be sent to do the job. | 3 |
Earlier blooming lilacs another harbinger of global warming <b>...</b> As the first signs of winter push into the US Northeast, American researchers have some good news for fair weather fans - spring is coming earlier than it used to. | 3 |
Bus Hijackers Demand 740,000 #39;Or We #39;ll Blow Up Hostages #39; Bus hijackers tonight set a Thursday morning deadline for Greek authorities to deliver a ransom of 740,000, threatening to blow up the vehicle and six remaining hostages if they did not receive the money. | 0 |
Summary: Spring coming earlier than usual SPRING TORRENTS: In one of the most comprehensive studies of plants #39; response to the global warming trend, Cornell scientists and their colleagues at the University of Wisconsin concluded | 3 |
NVIDIA Announces GeForce 6 GPU with TurboCache Technology December 15, 2004 - NVIDIA today announced the newest GPU in its GeForce 6 series of graphics processors, the NVIDIA GeForce 6200 GPU with TurboCache technology. | 3 |
Australia, Pakistan set to wage speed war Australia and Pakistan both delayed naming their teams for the first cricket test starting in Perth today as they consider adding extra pacemen to their bowling stocks in anticipation of a speed war. | 1 |
Reds add two to bolster bullpen The Reds added two pitchers to their bullpen today, signing veteran right-handers David Weathers and Ben Weber. Weathers, 35, signed a one-year deal with an option for 2006. | 1 |
Marion Jones Sues BALCO Founder (AP) AP - Track star Marion Jones filed a defamation lawsuit Wednesday against the man whose company is at the center of a federal investigation into illegal steroid use among some of the nation's top athletes. | 1 |
Senior British cabinet minister David Blunkett resigns in fallout <b>...</b> Britain #39;s top law-enforcement officer, a key member of Prime Minister Tony Blair #39;s cabinet, resigned on Wednesday after acknowledging that his department had fast-tracked a visa for his former lover #39;s nanny. | 0 |
Sox to ink Renteria to four-year pact com. Edgar Renteria, for nine years one of the Majors #39; best all-around and most underrated shortstops, has agreed with the Red Sox on a four-year contract. | 1 |
Spanish coach facing action in race row MADRID (AFP) - Spanish national team coach Luis Aragones faces a formal investigation after Spain #39;s Football Federation decided to open disciplinary proceedings over racist comments about Thierry Henry of France and Arsenal. | 1 |
EU prepares green light for Turkey #39;s entry BRUSSELS: The EU sought Wednesday to keep pressure on Turkey over its bid to start talks on joining the bloc, as last-minute haggling seemed set to go down to the wire at a summit poised to give a green light to Ankara. | 0 |
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