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Update 1: Interbrew Shareholders Back Ambev Linkup Shareholders of Belgian brewer Interbrew SA gave unanimous backing Friday to the linkup of their family company with Brazil #39;s Ambev to form the world #39;s largest brewer by volume. | 2 |
AA passengers can chew on this offer Got the munchies at 30,000 feet but don #39;t care for the typical quot;complimentary quot; airline food? You don #39;t need to bail out on the eats much longer - more and more airlines are grounding such chow. | 2 |
Asian Stock Markets Close Mostly Higher Asian stock markets closed mostly higher Friday, with the key indexes edging higher both in Tokyo and Hong Kong. Tokyo #39;s Nikkei Stock Average of 225 issues rose 80. | 2 |
Agencies crack down on cyberfraud Hoping to clean up the Internet #39;s reputation as a haven for scam artists, federal officials unveiled a series of arrests, indictments and convictions Thursday involving a range of cyberfraud. | 3 |
Everything You Need to Know About Microsoft #39;s OS Update The service pack is notable mostly for a variety of new security features, including fixes to many known problems, a new version of the Windows Firewall that is turned on by default, and a new security center. | 3 |
Intel and Linksys deliver quot;simpler quot; Wi-Fi software Intel Corp. and Linksys, a division of Cisco Systems Inc., yesterday announced the delivery of software that the companies hope will simplify the deployment of Wi-Fi networks for residential and small business users. | 3 |
Ofcom acts tough on Local Loop Unbundling The communications watchdog is looking to create an independent pricing structure for broadband operators to offer connections directly to customers through Local Loop Unbundling (LLU), instead of renting them from major network owner BT. | 3 |
IBM buys content integration provider IBM Corp. #39;s software division notched up its 18th acquisition in three years yesterday, announcing the purchase of content integration specialist Venetica Corp. | 3 |
Aussie PM caught in spam row THE AUSTRALIAM Prime Minister, a man called John Howard, is at the centre of a spam row. When Howards party steered through an anti-spam law late last year it came with a couple of loopholes that were opposed by the opposition. | 3 |
Government fires workers over Web porn The government has fired 19 civil servants and disciplined more than 200 in an unprecedented crackdown on viewing Internet porn at work, officials say. | 3 |
VeriSign to fight on after ICANN suit dismissed A US federal judge yesterday tossed a crucial lawsuit between VeriSign Inc. and the Internet Corp. for Assigned Names and Numbers, but VeriSign vowed to continue the legal battle in a different jurisdiction. | 3 |
Canon CP-330 Compact Photo Printer The combination of the size (2.2 by 6.7 by 4.8 inches, HWD), weight (2.5 pounds with the battery), and battery lets you bring the printer and a PictBridge camera anywhere and print photos on the spot. | 3 |
Phishing lures first German victims Two clients of Germany #39;s Postbank have fallen for an email fraud that led them to reveal money transfer codes to a bogus Web site -- the first case of this scam in German, prosecutors say. | 3 |
Virtual Girl For guys who have been striking out in the love department, a Hong Kong company has developed a virtual girlfriend for new cell phones with video screens. | 3 |
MIKE WENDLAND: Instant-messaging trend spreads among adults Instant messaging has become a key way in which Americans communicate. And Detroit-area residents are right up there with IMers anywhere, with 58 percent of all Internet users in southeastern Michigan using IM regularly. | 3 |
Olympics: Radcliffe to run 10,000 metres after Olympic marathon <b>...</b> ATHENS : British marathon flop Paula Radcliffe will run the Olympic 10,000 metres final, British athletics team officials said. quot;Paula has decided to run the 10,000 metres, quot; a British athletics team spokeswoman said. | 1 |
China soars in springboard, takes 3-meter gold for 5th straight <b>...</b> Athens -- They might as well paint the diving board red. The gold medal for women #39;s 3-meter springboard diving went to the Chinese -- for the fifth Olympics in a row. | 1 |
Athletics: Aarrett 29th in 50km walk Craig Barrett couldn #39;t improve on his efforts of four years ago as he ended more than four hours of hot toil with a 29th placing in the Olympic Games 50km walk here today. | 1 |
GILL ON ROONEY quot;All I can tell you is to reiterate what we put out to the stock exchange this morning. We confirmed, following media speculation, that we had made a bid for Wayne. | 1 |
Schumacher tipped to win seventh championship SPA-FRANCORCHAMPS - Although Michael Schumacher could still see his Ferrari teammate Rubens Barrichello take the world title from him, few doubt that he will finalise his seventh championship at the Belgian Grand Prix on Sunday. | 1 |
49er #39;s last race A royal reception awaited the new 49er Olympic Champions as Iker Martinez and Xabier Fernandez stepped ashore after the last race of the regatta yestrday. | 1 |
Najaf Peace Accord Reported (CBS/AP) Iraq #39;s interim government and rebel cleric Muqtada al-Sadr have both agreed to a peace deal presented by top Shiite cleric Grand Ayatollah Ali Husseini al-Sistani to end three weeks of fighting in the holy city of Najaf. | 0 |
Mother of Kim Jong-il #39;s Sons Reported Dead South Korean officials say they have been unable to confirm news reports that the wife of North Korean leader Kim Jong-il has died after a long illness. | 0 |
Thai Prime Minister continues with visit to the South despite bomb <b>...</b> Thai Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra says that his visit to the South will not be deterred by yesterdays bomb blasts. Mr Thaksin arrived in the Pattani province today, as part of his scheduled trip to Southern Thailand. | 0 |
Car Bomb Explodes Near US Convoy in Mosul MOSUL, Iraq, Aug 27 - A car bomb exploded near a US military convoy in the Iraqi city of Mosul on Friday, wounding at least 10 civilians, police and hospital officials said. | 0 |
Boardroom fight snags RedEnvelope (SiliconValley.com) SiliconValley.com - RedEnvelope, a San Francisco online retailer that survived the Internet downturn to become a public company last year, is caught in the middle of a boardroom fight between dissident shareholders and one of Silicon Valley's most successful venture capitalists. | 3 |
Bangladesh calls in Interpol over bombing of political rally (AFP) AFP - Bangladesh has called in Interpol to assist investigations into the August 21 grenade attack on an opposition rally which killed 20 people, a senior police officer said. | 0 |
Stocks to Watch Friday U.S. oil major ConocoPhillips is seeking to buy up to 25 percent in Russian oil giant LUKOIL <A HREF="http://www.investor.reuters.com/FullQuote.aspx?ticker=LKOH.RTS target=/stocks/quickinfo/fullquote">LKOH.RTS</A>, booking billions of barrels of new reserves, an industry source familiar with the matter said on Friday. ConocoPhillips shares closed at \$72.70 on the New York Stock Exchange. | 2 |
Investigators Find Explosives in Russia Plane Wreck MOSCOW (Reuters) - Explosive of a kind used by Chechen rebels has been found in one of two airliners that crashed simultaneously, Russian investigators said, making it look ever likelier that the disaster was a political attack. | 0 |
Managers Move Some Funds to Europe, Asia (Reuters) Reuters - U.S. fund managers seem inclined not\to make any big shifts in allocations among the major asset\classes, but a new Reuters poll shows money moving into Europe\outside of the Eurozone and into non-Japan Asia. | 0 |
Census: Poverty up in 2003 WASHINGTON -- The number of Americans in poverty and those without health insurance each rose by more than 1 million in 2003, the Census Bureau reported Thursday. | 2 |
Canadian group gets Banknorth foothold Banknorth Group Inc. of Portland and TD Bank Financial Group of Toronto announced a merger Thursday that gives Banknorth money to expand while setting the stage | 2 |
Tesco drops Dairy Crest Shares in dairy giant Dairy Crest Group have fallen more than 18 percent after supermarket chain Tesco said it no longer wants its fresh milk. | 2 |
July profit of \$6 million disappoints, United says United Airlines said in a bankruptcy-court filing yesterday that it eked out a \$6 million net profit last month during the middle of the busy summer travel season. | 2 |
Operation Web Snare targets online crime The action, dubbed Operation Web Snare, entailed more than 160 investigations over a three month period between June and August. Investigators say they have identified more than 150,000 victims with estimated losses of more than \$215 million. | 3 |
Science calls for anglers to cut line All those recreational anglers who dangle bait off US coasts are catching a much bigger share of fish -- especially some threatened species -- than commonly thought, researchers report in a new study. | 3 |
Oracle extends offer for PeopleSoft again Oracle #39;s hostile bid to acquire rival enterprise software maker PeopleSoft for \$7.7bn (4.3bn) is set to continue for a bit longer. | 3 |
Korzeniowski retains men #39;s 50km walk gold Poland #39;s Robert Korzeniowski retained his 50km walk title at the Olympic Games here on Friday. The 36-year-old, who swept both walk gold medals in the Sydney Olympics four years | 1 |
Russian and China Reach Women #39;s Volleyball Final esilient Russia is going to another gold-medal game in women #39;s volleyball, and it will take on China, which ended Cuba #39;s streak of three straight Olympic championships. | 1 |
Bryant Rape Trial to Begin Today On one point, both sides agree: The sexual encounter in Kobe Bryant #39;s hotel suite was over in a matter of minutes. But that episode on a summer night in the Colorado mountains | 1 |
Investigators Find Explosives in Russia Plane Wreck Explosive of a kind used by Chechen rebels has been found in one of two airliners that crashed simultaneously, Russian investigators said, making it look ever likelier that the disaster was a political attack. | 0 |
Tearing up the road map In 2002, President Bush laid down a quot;road map for peace quot; between Israel and the Palestinians. That road map, to which Israel agreed, called flatly for Israelis to immediately freeze all settlement activity on the occupied West Bank. | 0 |
Can Khartoum disarm the janjaweed militia? DARFUR, Sudan: Khadijah Mohammed Ali Ardamatta, a resident of the Ardamatta camp in West Darfur, removed her shawl to show a deep wound in her chest sustained when Arab militias attacked her in February in her village of Noury. | 0 |
Oil Losses Ease on Iraq Pipeline Attack US crude climbed 40 cents to \$43.50 a barrel, around \$6 below a record peak struck last Friday at \$49.40. London #39;s Brent crude gained 42 cents to \$40. | 0 |
Mother of North Korean President #39;s Sons Reported Dead South Korean officials are trying to confirm reports that the most influential woman in North Korea has died. Ko Young Hee, is sometimes referred to as the wife of North Korean leader Kim Jong Il. | 0 |
UN Report: Effect of Sanctions On Terrorist Groups Unclear A United Nations (UN) report states that although the assets of the terrorist organization Al-Qaeda have been frozen, it is hard to tell what this means. | 0 |
Cypriot govt condemns bomb attack on church The Cypriot government on Friday denounced a bomb attack that rattled the Church of Agios Mamas Friday morning in the town of Morphou in Turkey-controlled northern Cyprus. | 0 |
Before-the-Bell: Chiron Shares Stumble NEW YORK (Reuters) - Shares of Chiron Corp. <A HREF="http://www.investor.reuters.com/FullQuote.aspx?ticker=CHIR.O target=/stocks/quickinfo/fullquote">CHIR.O</A> fell 7 percent before the market open on Friday, a day after the biopharmaceutical company said it is delaying shipment of its flu vaccine, Fluvirin, because lots containing 4 million vaccines do not meet product sterility standards. | 2 |
Mia Hamm Happy to Be Retiring Unhurt ATHENS (Reuters) - On the first day of the rest of her life, American Mia Hamm said she was relieved to be retiring unhurt after being the dominant women's soccer player of her generation. | 1 |
Karzai sworn in before Cheney and Rumsfeld Hamid Karzai warned world leaders of the threat from terrorism and drugs after being sworn as Afghanistans first popularly-elected president today. | 0 |
Caution: Angry Artists at Work Political fervor stemming from the Republican National Convention is being translated into art in mediums that range from painting and sculpture to Web art to political ephemera. | 0 |
Jury Selection Begins in Kobe Bryant Case EAGLE, Colo. - After 14 months of sordid headlines and days of hearings that left unanswered questions, Kobe Bryant's sexual assault trial was to begin with hundreds of people scheduled to arrive for the first wave of jury selection... | 0 |
Explosives Found in Russian Plane Wreckage Russian investigators said Friday that they found traces of explosives in the wreckage of one of the two planes that crashed almost simultaneously earlier this week killing 89 people. It was the strongest indication yet that terrorists were behind the twin tragedies. | 0 |
Dozens of Internet Crime Suspects Nabbed A summer-long effort targeting Internet crime has resulted in dozens of arrests and convictions on charges including use of "spam" e-mail to steal credit card numbers, computer hacking and online fraud, Justice Department officials said Thursday. <FONT face="verdana,MS Sans Serif,arial,helvetica" size="-2"\ color="#666666"><B>-AP</B></FONT> | 3 |
Screening System Touted as Improvement For months, homeland security officials have privately debated how to blunt criticism of their planned aviation screening system that passengers and airlines complained was overly intrusive.<br><FONT face="verdana,MS Sans Serif,arial,helvetica" size="-2"\ color="#666666"><B>-The Washington Post</B></FONT> | 3 |
Apple Jumps Ahead of HP iPod, iMac Launch <p>\</p><p> SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Shares of Apple Computer Inc.\<AAPL.O> rose to an almost four-year high on Thursday ahead of\the launch of Hewlett-Packard Co.'s <HPQ.N> version of the iPod\digital music player and Apple's revamped iMac computer.</p> | 3 |
FUTURES MOVERS Crude-oil futures stabilized Friday, moving narrowly higher as traders digested developments out of Najaf, Iraq, and assessed what the possibility of restoring peace | 2 |
No Shortage Of Poverty The increase seems small enough: two-fifths of 1 percent. The percentage of Americans living in poverty rose to 12.5 percent in 2003, up from 12. | 2 |
Hobbyist anglers take big catch Millions of casual US anglers are having are larger than appreciated impact on sea fish stocks, scientists claim. | 3 |
Germany expels Jordanian allegedly linked to Zarqawi group (AFP) AFP - Germany has expelled a Jordanian suspected of links to a terrorist group run by Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, who is wanted for launching several attacks in Iraq, the Bavarian state interior ministry said. | 0 |
Sharp jump in hepatitis E cases in Darfur: WHO (AFP) AFP - A deadly outbreak of hepatitis E in Sudan's Darfur region has spread rapidly, with the number of cases almost tripling in less than a month, the World Health Organization said. | 0 |
Oracle again extends offer for PeopleSoft Oracle Corp.'s hostile bid to acquire rival enterprise software maker PeopleSoft Inc. for \$7.7 billion is set to continue for a bit longer. | 3 |
U.N.: N. Korean Environment in Poor Shape (AP) AP - North Korea's forests are depleted, its rivers and streams are filled with runoff from factories and a reliance on coal energy has created severe urban air pollution, the United Nations said Friday in its first report on the communist nation's environment. | 3 |
Agriculture Dept. Offers Grouse Funding (AP) AP - The Agriculture Department offered #36;2 million Thursday to help private land owners in four Western states protect the habitat of the sage grouse. | 3 |
Iraq Rebels Leave Najaf Shrine, Hand in Weapons NAJAF, Iraq (Reuters) - Shi'ite fighters left the holiest shrine in the Iraqi city of Najaf Friday and began turning in their weapons, after tens of thousands of pilgrims celebrated a peace agreement that ended a bloody rebellion. | 0 |
Dollar Indecisive Ahead of U.S. Data LONDON (Reuters) - The dollar erased earlier losses to stand steady near recent three-week highs against the euro on Friday as investors became reluctant to take big bets ahead of U.S. data and a speech by Federal Reserve chief Alan Greenspan. | 2 |
'Mercenary leader' found guilty Former British SAS officer Simon Mann is convicted of attempting to buy arms for an alleged Equatorial Guinea coup plot. | 0 |
Tentative Accord Reached in Najaf to Halt Fighting Thousands of Shiites marched in celebration of an accord reached to end fighting between U.S. forces and a rebel cleric's militia. | 0 |
Banks settle in conflict probe Bee Staff Writer. In the latest crackdown on conflicts of interest on Wall Street, federal and state regulators said Thursday that they #39;ve obtained a \$100 million settlement from two investment | 2 |
Vivendi in line for 2.5bn tax savings VIVENDI, whose Universal Music arm is the worlds biggest music group, has been given the go-ahead by the French government to file returns under a new tax regime that will save it roughly 2. | 2 |
Hobbyist anglers take big catch Amateur anglers have a significant and possibly damaging impact on certain sea-fish populations, scientists claim. The Science magazine study says the US #39;s 10 million saltwater recreational anglers may need better regulation. | 3 |
Slash UK broadband costs, says watchdog BROADBAND access prices in Britain are still too high and need to be cut further to bring the country into line with other nations, according to Ofcom, Britains media and telecoms regulator. | 3 |
Crunchtime Arrives for Oracle and PeopleSoft The Wall Street rumor mill is working overtime, spinning off speculation about how soon a decision will be announced in the US government lawsuit aimed at blocking Oracle #39;s (ORCL:Nasdaq - news - research) proposed takeover of PeopleSoft (PSFT:Nasdaq | 3 |
Mia Hamm Happy to Be Retiring Unhurt On the first day of the rest of her life, American Mia Hamm said she was relieved to be retiring unhurt after being the dominant women #39;s soccer player of her generation. | 1 |
UPDATE 1-Everton #39;s Rooney hands in transfer request Everton #39;s teenage England striker Wayne Rooney has handed in a transfer request, the Premier League club announced on Friday. Everton have turned down two bids estimated at 20 million | 1 |
Davidson steals limelight Briton Anthony Davidson enhanced his claims for a place in the BAR team next season by going fastest in free practice for Sunday #39;s Belgian GP. | 1 |
UN: Effort to cripple al-Qaeda not working UN report says threat from Al-Qaeda related terrorism remains as great as ever, UN-led sanctions are not working. By Marc Carnegie - UNITED NATIONS. | 0 |
Six Injured in Bomb Blasts at Two Indian Mosques Unidentified men threw crude bombs at two mosques as worshippers ended Friday prayers in the western Indian state of Maharashtra, wounding at least six people, police said. | 0 |
Small Asteroid Gives Earth its Closest Shave Yet PARIS (AFP) -- A rock measuring less than 10 metres (33 feet) across zipped past the Earth at the closest distance ever detected, but it would not have posed any threat if it had struck our planet, astronomers said. The "very small" asteroid missed the Earth on March 31 by the wafer-thin gap of 6,500 kilometers (4,000 miles), according to an email circulated by the international network NEO News (NEO stands for Near-Earth Object)... | 3 |
Canada #39;s TD to buy Banknorth for 3.8 billion dollars NEW YORK : Toronto-Dominion Bank said it would pay 3.8 billion dollars for a controlling stake in Maine-based Banknorth Group as the Canadian lender moved to take its first foothold in US branch banking. | 2 |
Nothing like a perfect finish for Mia ATHENS, Greece -- She had bruises on her legs, scars on her arms and the weary look of a future soccer mom. Mia Hamm ached more Thursday night than even her husband, the shortstop with the perpetual nagging pains. | 1 |
Andres the giants of US boxing team ATHENS - Calling all Andres. Maybe that #39;s what #39;s wrong with the US boxing team. Not enough Andres. Only two US boxers reached today #39;s medal round, middleweight Andre Dirrell and light heavyweight Andre Ward. | 1 |
India take seventh place in Olympic hockey (Reuters) Reuters - Former hockey force Pakistan finished the Olympics in fifth place on Friday while Egypt slumped out of the tournament 12th. | 0 |
Oil Rebounds After Iraq Pipeline Attack LONDON (Reuters) - Oil prices rose on Friday as a sabotage attack on Iraqi oil infrastructure reignited concern about the reliability of crude exports from the country despite a peace deal to end an uprising in Najaf. | 2 |
Tampa Radar Failed Before Charley Hit (AP) AP - As Hurricane Charley bore down on Florida this month, the principal radar covering the landfall area went down due to mechanical failure #151; and wasn't restored until 14 hours before the storm smashed into the state, according to documents and officials. | 3 |
Interbrew Wins Shareholder OK for AmBev BRUSSELS (Reuters) - Belgium's Interbrew won approval from shareholders on Friday to buy Brazil's AmBev in a deal valued at about 8 billion euros (\$9.7 billion), surpassing Anheuser-Busch as the world's biggest brewer. | 2 |
Iraq Cleric Urges Fighters to Drop Arms NAJAF, Iraq - Thousands of pilgrims streamed into the Imam Ali Shrine on Friday and filed out mixed with militants who had been holed up inside, leaving the holy site nearly empty after Iraq's top Shiite cleric brokered a peace deal to end three weeks of fighting in this holy city. Hours earlier, firebrand Shiite cleric Muqtada al-Sadr issued a statement broadcast over the shrine's loudspeakers, ordering his fighters to lay down their arms and leave Najaf and neighboring Kufa... | 0 |
U.S. Men Play Argentina for Shot at Gold ATHENS, Greece - The United States and Argentina will go after each other again in the Olympic men's basketball semifinals, and if their latest performances carry over, it'll be difficult for the South American rivals to win. The game is scheduled for a 1 p.m... | 0 |
Poverty grips more in nation WASHINGTON -- The number of poor Americans grew by 1.3 million last year, according to a sobering and politically sensitive Census Bureau report issued Thursday. | 2 |
Gus plans float for Lewis Group GREAT Universal Stores, the owner of Argos, revealed today that it was seeking a partial flotation of its South African business the Lewis Group. | 2 |
Scottish amp; Southern, Talisman Plan Offshore Wind Farm (Update1) Scottish amp; Southern Energy Plc, the UK #39;s fourth-largest energy supplier, and Canada #39;s Talisman Energy Inc. plan a wind farm 25 kilometres (16 miles) off the coast of Scotland to test deepwater windmills. | 2 |
Nokia and Vodafone link on mobile Java standards Nokia and Vodafone have begun a mobile service architecture initiative to help define the next generation of mobile Java standards. | 3 |
Oracle again extends offer for PeopleSoft Oracle Corp. #39;s hostile bid to acquire rival enterprise software maker PeopleSoft Inc. for \$7.7 billion is set to continue for a bit longer. | 3 |
Verisign loses legal battle with ICANN, again Verisign has lost the latest round of its legal battle against the Internet #39;s technical regulator ICANN. Judge Howard Matz of the District Court in Central California threw out Verisign #39;s allegations that | 3 |
Ooohs follow boos This was supposed to be a night to remember. For Greeks all over, this was going to be the highlight of the Olympics in Athens. Because this would have been the night that belonged to Kostas Kenteris. | 1 |
Schumacher takes second best in opening session World champion Michael Schumacher had to take second best to Anthony Davidson when Formula One returned to his favourite track on Friday in practice for the Belgian Grand Prix. | 1 |
HP tips its hand on new iPod Hewlett-Packard reveals the pricing and storage capacity for its clone of Apple's music player. | 3 |
Crude oil price declines for fifth session Crude oil futures declined for a fifth session Thursday as a cease-fire in Najaf eased concern that shipments from Iraq would be disrupted. | 2 |
Interbrew Wins Shareholder OK for AmBev Belgium #39;s Interbrew won approval from shareholders on Friday to buy Brazil #39;s AmBev in a deal valued at about 8 billion euros (\$9. | 2 |
Airbus gets 8 orders PARIS - Thai Airways has ordered six of Airbus #39; new 555-seater A380 jumbo jets and two smaller A340 wide-bodied jets, the European aircraft maker said Friday. | 2 |
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