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Volz escapes charges as Fulham get shakes Moritz Volz will escape punishment for accidently kicking a pensioner in the head during Fulham #39;s 4-3 defeat at Portsmouth last night. | 1 |
Open is nerve center Jennifer Capriati can #39;t ever remember cramping in the middle of a tennis match. She can recall being so nervous during a warmup that she | 1 |
Douglas back with the Eagles It appears the Eagles are continuing on a quest to reunite some of the old gang for one gigantic Super Bowl run. Hugh Douglas, one of the team #39;s most popular players during his five seasons | 1 |
Braves stun Giants in ninth There #39;s a never-say die attitude floating around the Braves #39; clubhouse and it was displayed yet again Monday afternoon at Turner Field. | 1 |
Militants Give France Another Day Militants holding two French journalists hostage in Iraq extended their deadline by another 24 hours, Al Jazeera reported. The kidnappers threaten to kill the journalists unless France agrees to remove a ban on headscarves in schools. | 0 |
Darfur: Seeking the truth - Special Series on Sudan The United Nations has called Darfur the home of the worst humanitarian disaster in the world and the publicized statistics regarding events within the past 18 months in this western region of the Sudan are horrific. | 0 |
REBEL SHEIK ORDERS END TO FIGHTING August 31, 2004 -- BAGHDAD - Rebel Shiite cleric Moqtada al-Sadr has told his militia to end attacks on US and Iraqi government forces, aides said yesterday. | 0 |
Libya seems honest about nuke programme-UN report The UN nuclear watchdog said in a confidential report circulated on Monday that Libya appears to have been telling the truth in its declarations on the covert atomic weapons programme which it agreed in December to abandon. | 0 |
Fear of violence grips B #39;desh on day of mass strikes Dhaka, Aug 30. (PTI):Fear of violence gripped Bangladesh as the country #39;s two major parties faced-off on the streets today to protest the deadly grenade attack on the main opposition rally which killed 20 people and injured more than 300. | 0 |
Japanese Bank Ends Citigroup #39;s Reign The High Court in Japan has approved the unification negotiations of UFJ Holdings and Mitsubishi group thereby paving the way for the world #39;s largest bank. | 2 |
China #39;s heroes welcomed in Beijing Athletes who won China its highest-ever Olympics gold medal tally were greeted like heroes when they returned Tuesday, with flag-waving fans cheering wildly at the airport. | 1 |
Israeli army foils suicide attack at Erez Crossing The Israeli army said it foiled early Tuesday morning a suicide bombing attack by a Palestinian at Erez Crossing on the northern tip of Gaza. | 0 |
France Redoubles Diplomatic Effort to Save Hostages (Reuters) Reuters - France redoubled its diplomatic efforts\on Tuesday to save two French reporters held hostage in Iraq\ahead of a new deadline to scrap a school headscarf ban, as the\Islamic militant group Hamas called for the men's release. | 0 |
Onkyo's DVD Changer Spins a New Tune (PC World) PC World - Here's a hands-on look at the moderately priced, multiformat DV-CP802. | 3 |
Maddux Wins No. 302, Baker Wins No. 1,000 (AP) AP - Greg Maddux pitched the Chicago Cubs into the lead in the NL wild-card race and gave Dusty Baker a win to remember. Maddux threw seven shutout innings for his 302nd career win, Baker got his 1,000th victory as a manager and Chicago beat the Montreal Expos 5-2 on Monday night. | 1 |
Retailers Are Cool To Linux (TechWeb) TechWeb - Market-research firm Venture Development Corp. says a survey of retail IT execs shows that just 2 of point-of-sale systems use Linux, far less than expected. | 3 |
UBS Buys Schwab Unit for \$265 Mln GENEVA/NEW YORK (Reuters) - Swiss-based banking giant UBS AG has agreed to buy Charles Schwab Corp.'s capital markets unit for \$265 million in cash, making UBS a leading player on the U.S. Nasdaq exchange, the companies said on Tuesday. | 2 |
Sox preying upon Angels Growing up near Camp Pendleton as the son of a Marine gunnery sergeant, Dave Roberts learned all about baseball in Southern California. He played for UCLA before he wound up across town as the center fielder for the Los Angeles Dodgers, keenly aware that losing a Freeway Series to the Angels was tantamount to a Hollywood star turning an acting ... | 1 |
Patriots' Neal trying to pin down the NFL It had been seven years since Stephen Neal played football, and now he had to play at the highest level, against men who had dedicated their lives to the sport. Safe to say, his challenges were different from those of his teammates. Much different. Even in the locker room. | 1 |
Dollar Weaker Vs Euro on Data Uncertainty LONDON (Reuters) - The dollar eased from the previous day's three-week high versus the euro on Tuesday as investors grew cautious ahead of a series of key economic data due from the United States this week. Recent U.S. data have been sending mixed signals about economic recovery, contradicting upbeat comments from Federal Reserve officials and fanning uncertainty over the U.S. interest rate outlook. | 2 |
Notables The Expos have made seven errors in their last two games. Brad Ausmus of the Astros hit his first home run since July 25, a span of 59 at-bats. | 1 |
First-rate at second Just minutes after the Red Sox acquired him last December from the Rockies, Mark Bellhorn declared that he planned to wage an all-out effort to win the job as the starting second baseman. Little did he know the Sox would sign Pokey Reese a week later and all but hand Reese the job. And few observers seemed to believe that ... | 1 |
Douglas cut, then lands with Eagles Just a week after releasing their all-time sack leader, Tony Brackens , the Jacksonville Jaguars yesterday cut three-time Pro Bowler Hugh Douglas , leaving them without their starting defensive ends from last season. | 1 |
Hawaiian punch: US finds time for Ching Bruce Arena pushed the right buttons in the United States national team's last match, against Jamaica in Kingston Aug. 18. Brian Ching and Cobi Jones entered the match with the US trailing in the second half, then combined for the tying goal, which could go far in advancing the team to the next round of qualifying for the 2006 World ... | 1 |
Hitting some new heights At East Providence (R.I.) High, where he starred for four years at running back and linebacker, Jamie Silva said he played football at only one speed: quot;all-out. quot; | 1 |
Greenhorn no longer In the Deutsche Bank field of 156 golfers, many are well-known, but a lot are far removed from the spotlight. Meet one of those unheralded golfers: PGA Tour rookie Roland Thatcher. He's 27 years old and ranks 187th on the money list with \$154,644, having made the cut in six of his 16 starts. His best finish came two weeks ... | 1 |
Open is nerve center Jennifer Capriati can't ever remember cramping in the middle of a tennis match. She can recall being so nervous during a warmup that she thought her feet would stick to the court, but never needing medical assistance to quell that sinking physical feeling. | 1 |
Defeatist attitude missing Teryn Ashley had a smile on her face despite her straight-set opening-round loss to 12th-seeded Ai Sugiyama . For the third time this year, the Brookline, Mass., native found herself in the main draw of a major tournament, this time making her debut at the US Open. | 1 |
Chinese athletes cash in on gold How much is an Olympic gold medal worth? For China's newest sports stars, fresh from triumph in Athens and idolized by a sports-crazy public, the country's ongoing rush to capitalism means they can cash in like never before. | 1 |
Today's schedule Amateur baseball: Yawkey League playoffs -- South Boston vs. Somerville at Ronan Park, Dorchester, 7:30 p.m. | 1 |
Brazil appeals for gold Brazilian sports officials blamed inadequate security for a defrocked priest's bizarre attack on the Olympic marathon leader, and said yesterday they will appeal to world track authorities for a duplicate gold medal. | 1 |
Profits increase as Bayer revamps German drugs and chemicals giant Bayer reports second quarter profits at the top end of market expectations, as it continues to revamp its business. | 2 |
Bank units here; jobs scattered Bank of America's four units still headquartered in Boston actually are scattered throughout the country, executives said, one more sign that the jobs and influence the city expected from the bank's \$48 billion merger with FleetBoston Financial Corp. have not yet materialized. | 2 |
N.Y. firm to take winner of Fan Pier bid private Only weeks before the sale of Fan Pier closes, the ownership of the new development team is changing. | 2 |
Shoppers open wallets Shoppers spent more freely in July, raising hopes that June's economic lull would not last. | 2 |
Prices of oil drop despite sabotage Oil futures dropped by nearly \$1 per barrel yesterday despite more sabotage of Iraqi oil infrastructure, reinforcing the view among traders that prices had risen too fast earlier this summer. | 2 |
Haemonetics buys blood products line Haemonetics Corp. acquired Harvest Technologies Corp.'s Bloodless Surgery Station line, in an effort to expand its surgical blood salvage products and to enter the surgical patient management market. Haemonetics said it paid an undisclosed amount of cash to buy Plymouth-based Harvest Technologies' Bloodless Surgery Station, which is an integrated product for blood conservation and surgical blood salvage. The Braintree maker ... | 2 |
Interstate Bakeries falls on auditor report warning Interstate Bakeries Corp. , maker of Wonder bread and Hostess Twinkies, said yesterday its auditors' report may raise questions about its ability to continue as a going concern, sending its shares tumbling more than 42 percent. The company said in a statement that its annual report would again be delayed because of uncertainty over whether it will ... | 2 |
Canada wins fight with US on wheat The World Trade Organization's top court handed Canadian wheat farmers another victory yesterday in their fight against US charges they are unfair traders. | 2 |
Mylan vows to refile generic drug case Mylan Pharmaceuticals vowed yesterday to refile what it says will be a stronger federal complaint against the Food and Drug Administration over a ruling that has forced the company to compete with so-called quot;authorized generics. quot; | 2 |
Mutual fund assets fall 2 percent in July US mutual fund assets fell 2 percent to \$7.4 trillion last month, as declining equity markets reduced the value of stock funds, according to a survey conducted by the Investment Company Institute. | 2 |
SEC chief urges Congress to defer to board on options The US Congress should stay out of the debate over expensing stock options and let the Financial Accounting Standards Board handle it, US Securities and Exchange Commission chairman William Donaldson said. | 2 |
Heroes get warm welcome BBC Sport's Dan Warren joins the fans as they welcome home Team GB from the Olympics. | 1 |
First round of Pak-India bus talks concluded NEW DELHI: The first round of the two days talks on Muzaffarabad-Srinagar bus service between Pakistan and India was concluded today (Tuesday) in New Delhi. | 0 |
United States should rethink its role in the Middle East What a sad story. When innocent children become targets - Palestinian and Israeli children who don #39;t have bombs strapped to them, who are sitting inside homes or on buses - and we accept this without protest | 0 |
NHS 6.2bn computer system probed Government spending watchdog, the National Audit Office, is to investigate a 6.2bn programme to install a computer system at the NHS. | 3 |
Cooking up a digital future The future kitchen gadgets that could make life easier in the kitchen, say MIT researchers. | 3 |
Onkyo's DVD Changer Spins a New Tune Here's a hands-on look at the moderately priced, multiformat DV-CP802. | 3 |
From smugglers to the government, many experts see rampant crude <b>...</b> Few of Nigeria #39;s many corruption scandals draw more notice these days than that of the MT African Pride, an oil-smuggling ship that inexplicably disappeared four months ago while in the custody of the country #39;s navy. | 0 |
NEWS SNAP: Natl Grid Sells Gas Assets For GBP5.8 Bln LONDON (Dow Jones)--UK power and gas system operator National Grid Transco PLC (NGT.LN) Tuesday said it will return GBP2 billion, or 65 pence a share, to its shareholders after selling four | 2 |
Economists: Mortgage rates will help sustain home demand despite <b>...</b> US home prices at record levels don #39;t signal a national price #39; #39;bubble #39; #39; because low mortgage rates and prospects for improved job growth will help sustain demand, housing-industry economists said. | 2 |
ADB Head Chino to Resign, Japan Recommends Kuroda as Successor Asian Development Bank President Tadao Chino today expressed his intention to resign and Japan said it will recommend Haruhiko Kuroda, an adviser to Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi, to succeed him. | 2 |
US TECH EXECS #39; OPTIMISM IS UP August 31, 2004 -- US technology executives are increasingly optimistic about the business climate, although plans for increased technology spending remain modest, according to a study released yesterday. | 3 |
Trade Your Wallet for Wireless People fed up with the proliferation of credit cards, IDs and key cards that fill their wallets to bulging may soon have an alternative. | 3 |
Skype dials up beta software for Mac OS X Skype Technologies SA, of Luxembourg, Tuesday released a beta version of its free Internet telephony software for Apple Computer Inc. | 3 |
AMD demos first dual-core processor Advanced Micro Devices Inc. (AMD) has demonstrated the company #39;s first dual-core microprocessors at its Austin, Texas, office, the company said Tuesday. | 3 |
Delay Linux migration, advises experts Businesses should delay switching to Linux until IT managers can give a better business case for adoption, says research. And although Linux is still seeing double figure growth, following support by IBM, HP | 3 |
Novell restructures away from NetWare NOVELL HAS been playing management musical chairs as it distances itself as a purveyor of NetWare and transforms itself into a flogger of Linux and high end systems. | 3 |
Data Center Markup Language (DCML) Organization Transitions to <b>...</b> The DCML Organization has announced a decision to move its technical and marketing activities to OASIS, organized as a new OASIS Member Section. | 3 |
Rugby-Dallaglio calls time on international career quot;I have decided to announce my decision to retire from international rugby with England with immediate effect, quot; he told a news conference at Twickenham on Tuesday. | 1 |
Premiership: Pompey win thriller Portsmouth won a seven-goal thriller at Fratton Park against Fulham, Aiyegbeni Yakubu netting a hat-trick. The home side were 4-3 winners in the end, although Fulham had earlier pulled back two goals after going 3-0 down very early on the match. | 1 |
Baker is man of 1,000 wins a-flied out for Biddle in the 5th. b-flied out for Ayala in the 8th. c-singled for Mercker in the 9th. E--TBatista (13), JRivera (3). | 1 |
Sharon wants to speed up Gaza plan - sources Jerusalem - Israel could begin withdrawing from occupied Gaza early next year under an accelerated timetable that Prime Minister Ariel Sharon plans to present to lawmakers of his Likud party on Tuesday, political sources said. | 0 |
Loans to Vietnam South Korea will provide \$21 million in long-term low rate loans to Vietnam to help the Southeast Asian nation build an advanced environmental infrastructure, according to the Ministry of Finance and Economy. | 0 |
Election Overseers Want Big Win Administrators are hoping that the victor in this year's presidential election will win by a wide margin. A close race, they fear, will result in more charges of voter fraud and demands for recounts. Kim Zetter reports from Washington. | 3 |
Bush Forms Civil Liberties Board An executive order issued Friday night creates an agency to safeguard privacy and civil rights laws, but critics see problems with the apointees and the apparent lack of power. By Ryan Singel. | 3 |
Astronauts Weigh Acceptable Risk In the quest for a cheaper route to space, astronauts competing for the X Prize are willing to take risks. But some wonder if blasting off in an untested rocket ship suspended from a giant balloon is taking things too far. By Dan Brekke. | 3 |
Trade Your Wallet for Wireless If calling, text messaging, web browsing and video filming aren't enough for you, your cell phone may soon be able to perform another function as well: paying for lunch. But is it secure? By Laila Weir. | 3 |
Cops Put Brakes on Bike Protest The creator of Bikes Against Bush planned to use his Wi-Fi-Bluetooth-SMS-bike combo to spray anti-Bush messages on city streets. But police intervene before he could start. Cyrus Farivar reports from New York. | 3 |
E-Vote Recount Rule in Dispute Officials in Florida are once again up in arms over recount procedures. The latest imbroglio follows a controversial ruling on touch-screen voting machines that was delivered days before a statewide primary. By Jacob Ogles. | 3 |
The Giants of Anime are Coming The three titans of Japanese animation are all about to unleash monster new films. Watch your back, Shrek. By Charles C. Mann from Wired magazine. | 3 |
Mini Supercomputers, Power Misers Using low-power chips, parallel processing and innovative architecture, Orion Multisystems introduces personal supercomputers that can plug into a wall socket. | 3 |
Putting Nature on the Pill Wildlife managers are looking to contraception as a way to control nuisance animals. | 3 |
In Iraq, a Quest to Rebuild One More Broken Edifice: Science The most unlikely element in one Iraqi nuclear physicist's quest may be his decision to undertake it in the first place. | 3 |
But Sweetie, You Love Lima Beans Psychologists were studying false memories when they stumbled on a surprisingly easy target for manipulation: foods. | 3 |
Using X-Ray Vision, He Keeps His Eye on the Bacteria Dr. C. Erec Stebbins talks about using a nearly 100-year-old investigative tool to identify the bacterial proteins that cause disease. | 3 |
Month by Month, a Tiny Baby's Hard-Won Pounds Somewhere between 6 and 9 months of age, she stopped gaining weight and I started worrying. | 3 |
Cows munch on light aircraft (AFP) AFP - When Tony Cooper and Lisa Kingscott left their four-seater light plane parked in a field to have lunch with friends nearby, they paid little attention to the cows quietly grazing nearby. | 0 |
Defiant Sharon sets out Gaza plan Israeli PM Ariel Sharon pushes ahead with an accelerated plan to withdraw from the Gaza Strip despite opposition. | 0 |
Rooney set for Man Utd Wayne Rooney arrives at Man Utd's training ground for a medical ahead of a 25m move from Everton. | 0 |
Mbeki pushes for DR Congo peace SA President Thabo Mbeki is to resume talks with a former rebel leader who pulled out of the DR Congo government. | 0 |
Eritrean 'hijackers' go on trial The trial begins in Sudan of 15 Eritrean asylum seekers charged with hijacking a Libyan plane. | 0 |
Taiwan cancels military exercise \Taipei cancels a military exercise in the Taiwan Strait after China apparently does the same. | 0 |
Fresh bid to ban Jenin film fails Israel's High Court defeats a new bid to ban a documentary about Israel's invasion of Jenin refugee camp. | 0 |
No evidence of hijack bid found before jet explosions MOSCOW -- Russia's transport minister, citing a quot;black box quot; recording from one of two planes that crashed minutes apart last week, said yesterday there was no evidence of a hijacking attempt or any other disturbance before explosions aboard the jetliners. | 0 |
Hostage crisis unites France behind headscarf ban PARIS -- French critics and defenders of a ban on Muslim headscarves in schools united in support of the law yesterday, pledging to stand firm against militants holding two French journalists hostage in Iraq who want the law revoked. | 0 |
Summary: Karzai Sworn in As Afghan Leader THE CEREMONY: Hamid Karzai was sworn in for a five-year term as Afghan president after winning the country #39;s first vote for head of state. | 0 |
Milosevic Opens His Defense Case THE HAGUE, Netherlands - Former Yugoslav President Slobodan Milosevic opened his defense at the Yugoslav war crimes tribunal Tuesday, starting the long-delayed second half of his trial on charges of genocide and other war crimes in the Balkans. Milosevic began by complaining to the judges that he was allotted only four hours to make his opening statement, while prosecutors were given three days to outline their case when the trial began in February 2002... | 0 |
Sharon Presents Gaza Withdrawal Timetable JERUSALEM - Prime Minister Ariel Sharon presented a detailed timetable for a withdrawal from the Gaza Strip to his Likud Party on Tuesday, and warned party rebels that the plan "will be implemented, period." Sharon said that on Sept. 14, he would seek Cabinet approval for initial compensation payments to Jewish settlers willing to leave voluntarily... | 0 |
National Grid Transco to sell British gas networks for 5.8 billion <b>...</b> National Grid Transco, the Britain-based deliverer of energy, announced it has agreed to sell four of its gas distribution networks to consortia in cash deals worth 5.8 billion pounds (8. | 2 |
Asian Development Bank President to resign in 2005 The President of the Asian Development Bank (ADB), Tadao Chino, Tuesday announced that he would resign on 31 January 2005, more than six years after he took the position. | 2 |
Orion puts #39;super #39; into the personal computer .Orion Multisystems said it would have two models of its Orion Cluster Workstation available at the end of the year that use up to 96 chips in a desktop-sized machine. | 3 |
Iraqi education official killed The top education ministry official in the oil-rich northern Iraqi city of Kirkuk has been assassinated by unknown assailants. quot;Ibrahim Ismail was killed on the main road as he was heading to the technological | 0 |
Longhorn #39;s range shrunk for greater speed Microsoft is shaking up its plans for the next version of Windows to get the software off the drawing board and into PCs by the end of 2006. | 3 |
Lawrence Dallaglio factfile 1995: In October, takes over Wasps captaincy when Rob Andrew leaves for Newcastle. Makes Test debut in November, coming on as a replacement for Tim Rodber against South Africa at Twickenham. | 1 |
Hitachi, Matsushita, Toshiba to jointly make large LCD panels (AFP) AFP - Japanese hi-tech giants Hitachi, Matsushita and Toshiba said they have agreed to jointly produce large liquid crystal display (LCD) panels for flat-screen televisions with one billion dollars in fresh investment. | 3 |
'Trek' on DVD: A logical choice (USATODAY.com) USATODAY.com - Trekkers can finally get the ultimate Star Trek enterprise, a complete DVD set of the 1960s series' first season. | 3 |
Rooney set for Man Utd Man Utd reach an "outline agreement" to sign Wayne Rooney, as Everton press for the "best available deal". | 0 |
Hewlett-Packard: a wannabe Kodak? <strong>Analysis</strong> Photos and printing dominate marketing strategy | 3 |
Big Drops In The Indexes, But Slip In Trading Volumes The five people trading shares Monday mostly sold. For example, a mere 62 million shares of the Nasdaq-100 tracking stock were traded. | 2 |
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