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Crude oil futures start heading down NEW YORK - Crude oil futures in New York have plunged 7.6 per cent in their biggest weekly decline in a year, because of reduced concerns about supply disruptions in Iraq. | 2 |
Monty #39;s in; Langer adds Montgomerie and Donald Munich, Germany (Sports Network) - European Ryder Cup captain Bernhard Langer finalized his team on Sunday when he added six-time Ryder Cup veteran Colin Montgomerie and rookie Luke Donald. | 1 |
Tae-young goes to court The South Korean gymnast who lost the all-around title to Paul Hamm because of a scoring error filed an appeal Sunday with a sports arbitration panel asking it to help him get a gold medal. | 1 |
Standoff bolstered Sadr #39;s support Interviews with Iraqi Shiite clerics reveal that moderates are increasingly supporting Sadr #39;s anti-US campaign. By Scott Baldauf Staff writer of The Christian Science Monitor. | 0 |
Explosion Kills 7 at US Firm in Kabul KABUL, Afghanistan Aug. 29, 2004 - An explosion tore through the office of an American security contractor in the heart of the Afghan capital Sunday, killing seven people, including two Americans, officials and witnesses said. | 0 |
Italian Wins Bizarre Men's Marathon (AP) AP - Stafano Baldini of Italy took the lead two miles from the finish to win the gold medal and American Meb Keflezighi took a stunning silver Sunday in an Olympic marathon disrupted by a costumed intruder who grabbed the race leader with about three miles to go. | 1 |
Two Turkish Hostages Freed in Iraq (AP) AP - Two Turkish hostages were freed by Iraqi militants Sunday, a Turkish Foreign Ministry official said, less than a week after the men's employers said they were ending operations in Iraq to save the lives of their employees. | 0 |
Sudanese peace talks restart after one-day rebel boycott (AFP) AFP - The African Union's peace talks on the crisis in Darfur restarted at the end of a one-day boycott called by two rebel groups in protest over alleged government attacks on civilians. | 0 |
Iraq Shadows Bush Presidency, Campaign (AP) AP - War is hell on a presidency. And it plays havoc with presidential campaigns. | 0 |
Greece set for Games finale Athens prepares to bid farewell to the 2004 Olympic Games at Sunday's closing ceremony. | 1 |
Veterans lead way for US women Sue Bird, the No. 1 pick in the 2002 WNBA draft, didn #39;t get many minutes at the Athens Games. By Jack Gruber, USA TODAY. In the gold medal game, a 74-63 victory against Australia, she played just one. | 1 |
Italian first, American surprising second in bizarre marathon Stafano Baldini of Italy took the lead two miles from the finish to win the gold medal and American Meb Keflezighi took a stunning silver Sunday in an Olympic marathon disrupted by a costumed intruder who grabbed the race leader with about three miles to | 1 |
Chirac sends foreign minister to Middle East to negotiate on Iraq hostages (AFP) AFP - French President Jacques Chirac said that he would immediately dispatch his foreign minister to the Middle East to help negotiate the release of two French journalists kidnapped in Iraq. | 0 |
Farmers' Almanac Predicts a Wild Winter (AP) AP - Gas up the snowblower but don't put away your umbrella: The Farmers' Almanac is predicting a wild winter with heavy precipitation and dramatic temperature swings in the Northeast. | 3 |
Two Afghan Blasts Kill at Least 17; Taliban Claims 1 KABUL (Reuters) - At least 17 people including children died in two explosions within 24 hours in Kabul on Sunday and overnight at a religious school in a southeastern province of Afghanistan, officials said Sunday. | 0 |
MTV Turns Up Celeb Heat in Sizzling Miami MIAMI - An already broiling Miami prepared for even more sizzle on Sunday as MTV brought the annual party known as the Video Music Awards to the city for the first time in the awards' 21-year history. The change of scenery for the awards, typically held in New York or Los Angeles, helped raise the decadence level at the already raucous, celebrity-soaked affair... | 0 |
Tax Cuts Still Cornerstone of Bush Economic Plan President Bush #39;s speech on Thursday to the Republican convention offers him a chance to seize the initiative in an economic debate that polls show is being won by his Democratic rival, John Kerry. | 2 |
Doping cases hit record With a record 24 athletes ousted for drug-related violations, perhaps the biggest upset of the Olympics was no US team member flunked a doping test. | 1 |
Triumphant Olympics End With Pride, Relief (AP) AP - Efharisto! A nervous world learned the Greek word for thank you and repeated it endlessly at an astonishingly successful Athens Olympics that quelled fears, surprised skeptics and greatly honored the birthplace of the games. | 1 |
African Union Probes Cease-Fire Violation (AP) AP - This small village of mud and straw huts lay ruined and abandoned Sunday, the ground charred, after residents said Sudanese soldiers attacked with a warplane and helicopters, driving farmers from their homes days before a U.N. deadline to end the violence in the ravaged Darfur region. | 0 |
Tiger Woods Opens Calif. Education Center (AP) AP - Tiger Woods says the primary goal of his youth education center is to help students improve their grades, not master their golf strokes. | 1 |
Two turns of a screw lay behind Sea King crash on destroyer deck - report (Canadian Press) Canadian Press - HALIFAX (CP) - Two turns of a screw caused the spectacular crash of a Sea King helicopter onto the deck of a Canadian destroyer at sea last year. | 0 |
Kremlin's Man Wins, Early Results in Chechnya Show MOSCOW (Reuters) - Preliminary results gave victory to Alu Alkhanov in Chechnya's presidential election Sunday, with the Moscow-backed policeman winning more than 50 percent of the vote, the region's acting president was quoted as saying. | 0 |
Lanka may withdraw \$5 million SCI suit Sri Lanka Telecom will shortly withdraw its \$5 million suit filed against Shipping Corp. of India Ltd (SCI) for allegedly damaging the islands main submarine telecommunications cable, Sudhir S Rangnekar, director, liner, SCI, said on Friday. | 3 |
Marathon leader attacked, but result stands Brazilian Vanderlei de Lima was tonight involved in the first high-profile security breach of the Olympic Games as a spectator watching the mens marathon accosted the long-time race leader. | 1 |
Athens closes 2004 Olympic Summer Games with pride and relief ATHENS (CP) - With pride and relief, Athens bid farewell to its guests from 201 countries at the close of the 2004 Olympic Games on Sunday. | 1 |
Ferguson bemoans finishing Manchester United boss Sir Alex Ferguson agreed it was handball by Louis Saha that led to their equaliser - but felt his side deserved to win. | 1 |
Afghan children killed in blast At least seven children have been killed and 15 wounded when a blast ripped through a school in the southeastern Afghan province of Paktia. | 0 |
Sudanese peace talks restart after rebel boycott as UN deadline expires (AFP) AFP - Sudanese peace talks restarted here at the end of a one-day boycott called by rebel groups in protest at alleged government attacks on civilians, and as a UN deadline for action on the Darfur crisis expired. | 0 |
Baldini Triumph in Marathon Marred by Intruder ATHENS (Reuters) - Italian Stefano Baldini won the Olympic men's marathon Sunday after an intruder dashed on to the course late in the race and bundled the then leader Vanderlei de Lima into the crowd. | 1 |
Anti-Kerry Ads Not Unfair, Laura Bush Says (Reuters) Reuters - First lady Laura Bush said on Sunday\that campaign advertisements accusing Democratic presidential\candidate John Kerry of lying about his Vietnam War record were\fair. | 0 |
Ward Wins Gold Andre Ward beats Magomed Aripgadjiev of Belarus for gold in the light heavyweight division. | 1 |
No entry for spam AFTER a couple of days #39; leave, one gets back to work, opens the e-mail and starts swearing. You know the reason: Spam. Except for tech-savvy Internet users who have installed tools such as spam filtering software | 3 |
Cut n #39; paste and colour codes My system configuration is as follows: Pentium IV - 1.60 GH, 128 MB RAM, Windows XP Pro OS, OXP. NAV2003 updated upto August 09, 2004. | 3 |
Schumacher Wins Seventh F-1 Title After Second Place in Belgium Ferrari #39;s Michael Schumacher secured a record-extending seventh Formula One driving title by finishing second to McLaren #39;s Kimi Raikkonen at the Belgium Grand Prix. | 1 |
Somalia inaugurates transitional gov #39;t Somalia inaugurated a transitional parliament Sunday, taking an important first step toward forming a new government for the devastated country even as rivalries continue | 0 |
United Parent Reports \$6M Profit in July United Airlines #39; parent company said in a bankruptcy-court filing Thursday that it eked out a \$6 million net profit last month during the middle of the busy summer travel season. | 2 |
Turning the corner SASKEN Communications, which provides embedded software to the telecom industry, has seen its fortunes change for the better the last year. | 3 |
Baldini Triumph in Marathon Marred by Intruder Italian Stefano Baldini won the Olympic men #39;s marathon Sunday after an intruder dashed on to the course late in the race and bundled the then leader Vanderlei de Lima into the crowd. | 1 |
Car Bomb Kills 2 Americans in Kabul A powerful car bomb exploded at dusk Sunday outside the downtown office of an American security contracting firm and an adjacent building used to train Afghan police. | 0 |
US, Afghan soldiers arrest 22 suspected Taliban Afghanistan KABUL, August 30 (Online): US and Afghan soldiers conducting a large sweep arrested 22 suspected Taliban after a firefight in a forbidding mountain region of Zabul province, Afghan and US military officials said . | 0 |
Soaring traffic fines, insurance rates have more Canadians fighting tickets (Canadian Press) Canadian Press - FREDERICTON (CP) - When a 23-year-old university student from New Brunswick decided to go to court to fight a #36;400 speeding ticket, she knew it was a long shot. | 0 |
125,000 Without Power As Storm Slams S.C. MOUNT PLEASANT, S.C. - Tropical Storm Gaston sloshed ashore in South Carolina Sunday with near hurricane-force wind, spinning sheets of rain that flooded roads as the storm knocked out power to thousands of people... | 0 |
Triumphant Olympics End With Pride, Relief ATHENS, Greece - Efharisto! A nervous world learned the Greek word for thank you and repeated it endlessly at an astonishingly successful Athens Olympics that quelled fears, surprised skeptics and greatly honored the birthplace of the games. Efharisto, Athens, for architectural masterpieces of stadiums and arenas that showcased record performances... | 0 |
Brazilian Attacked During Men #39;s Marathon ATHENS, Greece Aug. 29, 2004 - The defrocked Irish priest who bolted from the crowd and tackled the marathon leader about three miles from the finish Sunday has been arrested before for disrupting sporting events. | 1 |
Olympics: Baldini wins Olympic men #39;s marathon marred by <b>...</b> ATHENS : Stefano Baldini of Italy won a dramatic men #39;s marathon at the Olympic Gamesafter long-time race leader Vanderlei de Lima of Brazil was attacked by a spectator in the latter stages of the race. | 1 |
ATHENS OLYMPIC 2004 / El Guerrouj grabs 2nd gold, place in history <b>...</b> Two days ago, before he would add another chapter to his legendary tale, Hicham El Guerrouj received a message from a friend in France. | 1 |
ATHENS OLYMPICS 2004 / IOC boss Rogge hails #39;awakening of Asia #39; IOC President Jacques Rogge hailed quot;the awakening of Asia quot; at the Athens Olympics as the global event headed toward its finale. | 1 |
China rears sporting head ATHENS: While India continued to wallow in the misery of a lone silver medal, it was euphoria for China as it celebrated its best performance at Olympics after sprinting home in Athens in the final few days of competition with an unexpected surge of gold | 1 |
Israeli FM cautions EU not to back new UN vote on barrier Foreign Minister Sylvan Shalom cautioned the European Union Sunday to not back any Palestinian moves to condemn Israel at the United Nations for its controversial West Bank separation barrier. | 0 |
Frenchmen claim discovery of Great Pyramid burial chamber (AFP) AFP - Two French amateur archaelogists this week published a book in which they claim to have located the secret burial chamber of the Pyramid of Cheops near Cairo, the largest pyramid ever built. | 0 |
B.C. halfway house seen as killer haven was pressured into closing, says source (Canadian Press) Canadian Press - VANCOUVER (CP) - Operators of the controversial Vernon, B.C. halfway house whose residents were linked to three killings were stampeded into closing it even though there's no evidence of negligence, The Canadian Press has learned. | 0 |
Sportsview: USC Shows Its Flaws in Opener (AP) AP - The inexperienced receivers had a tough time getting open. The retooled offensive line had some trouble protecting the star quarterback. And the No. 1 team was trailing the 17 1/2-point underdog with 17 minutes left in the season opener. Southern California doesn't look unbeatable #151; yet. | 1 |
ConocoPhillips may buy up to 25 of Russia #39;s Lukoil US oil major ConocoPhillips is seeking to buy up to 25 percent in Russian oil giant Lukoil to add billions of barrels of reserves to its books, an industry source familiar with the matter said on Friday. | 2 |
MIT Makes Yale Provost First Woman to Be Its Chief The Massachusetts Institute of Technology on Thursday named Susan Hockfield, provost of Yale University, as its 16th president. She succeeds Charles M. Vest, who | 3 |
Rogge calls Athens unforgettable, dream games #39; Four years ago, the IOC warned Athens was in danger of losing the Olympics because of severe delays. On Sunday night, the verdict was vastly different. | 1 |
Monty gets the call The confidence Colin Montgomerie has displayed throughout the week in Munich proved to have been justified today when, as expected, he was named as one of Bernard Langer #39;s wild cards for the European Ryder Cup team. | 1 |
Raikkonen wins Belgian Grand Prix; Schumacher second CBC SPORTS ONLINE - Michael Schumacher wasn #39;t in the winner #39;s circle at Sunday #39;s Belgian Grand Prix, but still managed to make some noise. | 1 |
Deadly Blast Mars Chechen Voting GROZNY, Russia Aug. 29, 2004 - Chechens battered by five years of war, terrorism and misery voted Sunday for a president in an election that the Russian government portrayed as step toward stability, though | 0 |
Agnis suspect guidance tested Over a year after its induction in the Army, the Agni-II intermediate range missile was test-fired on Sunday to test its guidance system over a shorter range. | 0 |
Royals Recall Gobble, Place Sullivan on DL (AP) AP - The Kansas City Royals recalled left-hander Jimmy Gobble Sunday from Triple-A Omaha on Sunday, and placed right-hander Scott Sullivan on the 15-day disabled list with a back strain. | 1 |
Two Turkish Hostages Freed in Iraq -Agency (Reuters) Reuters - Two Turkish engineers abducted by\Iraqi militants were freed on Sunday after the companies they\work for said they would withdraw from Iraq to save their\lives, the state-run Anatolian news agency said. | 0 |
FBI Probing Suspected Israeli Spy at Pentagon Reuters, CNN, CBS news, and the Washington Post are reporting that the FBI is investigating a possible Israeli spy in the Pentagon. The suspected individual is described as a mid-level Pentagon analyst "specialized in Iranian affairs." The analyst is suspected of passing classified documents to Israel via the American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC), a powerful pro-Israel lobby in Washington. According to CBS news, the analyst had ties #8220;to Rumsfeld's deputy Paul Wolfowitz and Defense Undersecretary Douglas Feith, both regarded as leading architects of the war on Iraq. #8221; However, another government official claims the suspect is "not in a level to influence policy." | 3 |
Blast in Kabul Kills 7 at Compound of a U.S. Contractor At least two Americans died in a blast at the office of an American firm that provides security for President Hamid Karzai. | 0 |
Update 3: US, Europe Meet on Airplane Subsidies US Trade Representative Robert Zoellick and his new European counterpart Peter Mandelson failed to make headway on a trans-Atlantic standoff over subsidies for Airbus and Boeing at a meeting Monday, saying the dispute remains headed for WTO arbitration. | 2 |
Conoco Said in Talks for 25 of LUKoil US oil major ConocoPhillips is seeking to buy up to 25 percent in oil giant LUKoil to add billions of barrels of reserves to its books, an industry source familiar with the matter said Friday. | 2 |
When Turnabout Is Not Fair Play In the spring of 1999, then-Prime Minister Yevgeny Primakov set off on an official visit to the United States. Over the mid-Atlantic, however, Primakov ordered his pilot to turn the plane around and return to Moscow. | 2 |
US, Russia, China at the Top of the Table ATHENS -- After 16 days of competition and 301 events, the United States finished atop the medal charts for the third straight Summer Olympics, with Russia the overall runner-up and China second in gold medals -- its best showing ever and the leading edge | 1 |
Athens Games a Watershed in War Against Cheats It started with a missed drugs test and ended with a stripped gold medal. In between it was dominated by steroids, stimulants and diuretics. | 1 |
Russo on Football: No. 1 USC shows its flaws The inexperienced receivers had a tough time getting open. The retooled offensive line had some trouble protecting the star quarterback. | 1 |
Afghanistan Explosions Kill at Least 17 People, AFP Reports Two explosions, one at a religious school Saturday night and another in the Afghan capital Kabul Sunday, killed at least 17 people, including five children, and the Taliban militia has | 0 |
Latham condemns PM #39;s rates #39;scare campaign #39; Opposition Leader Mark Latham has accused Prime Minister John Howard of running a scare campaign after Mr Howard warned interest rates would rise under Labor. | 0 |
Heskey left out of England squad, Cole back in England coach Sven-Goran Eriksson has left Emile Heskey out of his 23-man squad for the World Cup Group Six qualifiers away to Austria in Vienna next Saturday and Poland in Chorzow four days later. | 1 |
Startup Launching Web-To-TV Video Service (AP) AP - The promise of Internet-based video has long been hamstrung by copyright and piracy worries, slow dial-up connections, technical challenges and consumer disdain for watching blotchy videos on their home computers. But a Silicon Valley startup is tackling those obstacles, hoping to become the first major provider of cinema straight from the Internet to the living room boob tube. | 3 |
Dunn Hits 39th HR As Reds Beat D-Backs (AP) AP - Edgar Gonzalez held Cincinnati hitless through six innings, but Adam Dunn's 39th homer helped the Reds rally for a 6-2 victory over the Arizona Diamondbacks on Sunday. Ryan Freel drove in the go-ahead run with an eighth-inning single and the Reds avoided a three-game sweep. | 1 |
Digital Gear: Entertaining Gadgets Slick CDs and portable DVD support, plus digicam choices and new security options. | 3 |
Afghan Blasts Kill at Least 17, Taliban Hits Kabul KABUL (Reuters) - At least 17 people including children were killed in a bomb attack in Kabul on Sunday and another blast overnight at a religious school in the southeast. | 0 |
Thousands Rally for Mexico Presidential Favorite MEXICO CITY (Reuters) - Some 160,000 Mexicans marched on Sunday to support the presidential hopes of the capital's leftist mayor who faces government-backed legal challenges that could knock him out of the 2006 race. | 0 |
Poll Shows Chechen Police Official in Lead GROZNY, Russia - The Russian government's choice for president of war-ravaged Chechnya appeared to be the victor Sunday in an election tainted by charges of fraud and shadowed by last week's terrorist destruction of two airliners. Little more than two hours after polls closed, acting Chechen president Sergei Abramov said preliminary results showed Maj... | 0 |
Marathoner Slips to Third After Attack ATHENS, Greece - A defrocked Irish priest bolted from the crowd and grabbed the marathon leader about three miles from the finish Sunday. The Brazilian runner wound up with the bronze - and a special award for sportsmanship - and the former priest was arrested... | 0 |
Equatorial Guinea Wants to Quiz Thatcher in S. Africa (Update1) Equatorial Guinea prosecutors have asked South Africa for permission to question Mark Thatcher, who was arrested in Cape Town last week on suspicion of bankrolling a failed plan to overthrow | 0 |
China Bans Nike Ad Chinese authorities have banned a Nike television commercial that features LeBron James battling cartoon martial arts masters. | 0 |
Rhode Island Man Barred From Sending Junk Text Messages A federal judge in New Jersey granted the injuction to Verizon Wireless, though the carrier did not get the \$150,000 in damages it was seeking. | 2 |
Brazil Protests to CAS Over De Lima Assault Brazil #39;s Olympic Committee will protest to the Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS) over the assault on Vanderlei de Lima who was pushed off the road when he was leading the Olympic marathon on Sunday. | 1 |
John Howard 1st Iraq Invader to Face Vote Prime Minister John Howard will become the first of three allied leaders who launched the US-led invasion of Iraq to face voters, having announced Sunday that Australians will go to the polls on Oct. 9. The | 0 |
Powerful typhoon Chaba set to hit southern Japan TOKYO: A powerful typhoon was poised to strike the southwestern Japanese island of Kyushu today, threatening large areas of the country with strong winds and heavy rain. | 0 |
U.S. Wins Medals Race, Finishing With 103 (AP) AP - The United States finished atop the medal charts for the third straight Summer Olympics, with Russia the overall runner-up and China second in gold medals #151; its best showing ever and the leading edge of a surge by Asian teams. The American team amassed 103 total medals, topping its target of 100, and won 35 golds to 32 for China and 27 for Russia. | 1 |
Clement Leaves Game With Neck Strain (AP) AP - Cubs starter Matt Clement left Sunday's game against the Houston Astros with an upper back and neck strain. | 1 |
Separate Blasts in Turkey Wound 11 People (Reuters) Reuters - A train in southeastern\Turkey derailed on Sunday after hitting a land mine placed by\suspected Kurdish separatists, while a separate mine blast\wounded 10 soldiers, security officials said. | 0 |
GOP Convention May Briefly Lift Stocks NEW YORK (Reuters) - Fasten your seatbelts. The Republicans are in town. If things go smoothly at the Republican National Convention, the stock market could get a brief boost this week, experts say. | 2 |
Bush Ties Attack in Saudi Arabia to Iraqi Elections President Bush tied Monday's deadly assault on a U.S. consulate in Saudi Arabia to the upcoming elections in neighboring Iraq, depicting it as part of a broader campaign by Islamic extremists to drive Americans out of the Middle East. | 0 |
Programs: For Stealth Lovers, 'Thief' Is a Steal (Gene Emery is a columnist who covers science and technology. His Internet address is GEmery(at)Cox.net. Any opinions in the column are his alone.) | 3 |
California cities and counties sue Microsoft for antitrust SAN FRANCISCO Several California cities and counties, including Los Angeles and San Francisco, are suing Microsoft for what could amount to billions of dollars. | 3 |
Triumphant Olympics end with pride and relief A nervous world learned the Greek word for thank you and repeated it endlessly at an astonishingly successful Athens Olympics that quelled fears, surprised skeptics and greatly honored the birthplace of the games. | 1 |
Song, spectacle bring 2004 Olympics to a close With an outpouring of joy, pride and some relief, Athens marked the completion of the 2004 Summer Olympic Games with a closing ceremony full of spectacle, fireworks and music. | 1 |
Hewitt wins Waterhouse Cup Australian Lleyton Hewitt posted a straight-set win over Peruvian Luis Horna on Sunday to capture the title at the TD Waterhouse Cup. | 1 |
Chirac Sends FM to Mideast to Win Iraq Hostage Release French President Jacques Chirac sent his foreign minister to the Middle East on Sunday to try to win freedom for two journalists held in Iraq by militants demanding France end its ban on Muslim headscarves in schools. | 0 |
Allawi Holds Meetings With Insurgents Iraq #39;s interim prime minister, Ayad Allawi, said Sunday he has held private meetings with representatives of insurgent groups from the restive cities of Fallujah | 0 |
John Howard 1st Iraq Invader to Face Vote CANBERRA, Australia Aug. 29, 2004 - Prime Minister John Howard will become the first of three allied leaders who launched the US-led invasion of Iraq to face voters, having announced Sunday that Australians will go to the polls on Oct. 9. | 0 |
Israeli reservists deal with double lives of being civilians and <b>...</b> At home, Eran Kurtzer is a suburbanite with a wife, baby daughter and small insurance agency. But for six weeks a year, 33-year-old Kurtzer is an army major leading a company of paratroopers on patrols through olive groves on the hills of the West Bank. | 0 |
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