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Bryant watches selection of jurors EAGLE (Colorado): Basketball star Kobe Bryant dodged photographers Tuesday and slipped through a back entrance into the court for the third day of jury selection for his rape trial. | 1 |
Syria-Dictated Move Prompts Political Uproar in Lebanon Lebanon #39;s hothouse politics have been thrown into turmoil by Syria #39;s insistence - at a suddenly summoned special cabinet meeting over the weekend - that the president | 0 |
UBS to buy Schwab #39;s trading unit UBS said Tuesday that it would buy Charles Schwab #39;s market making, research and institutional trading unit for \$265 million in cash. | 2 |
Transco to sell 4 gas networks for \$10.4 bn National Grid Transco (NGT), the UK gas and electricity distributor, announced today a sale price of 5.8 billion (\$10.4 billion) in cash and 130 million in liabilities for four of its local gas distribution networks. | 2 |
Reporter #39;s Notebook: Apple Expo Eyes iMac G5 PARISWhile one of the world #39;s great metropolitan centers, Paris may be known more for its bright lights than for technology introductions. | 3 |
Licensing #39;appeasement #39; triggered Longhorn change Microsoft wants to release its Longhorn client operating system in 2006 in order to quot;appease quot; the customers that have bought into its Software Assurance licensing package, according to analyst Gartner. | 3 |
TechBrief: Japan pact on TV displays Hitachi, Matsushita Electric Industrial and Toshiba have struck a deal to jointly make displays for flat-screen televisions, starting as early as July 2006, the Japanese companies said Tuesday. | 3 |
SP2 Said To Cause Problems In 10 Percent of Windows XP PCs Upgrading to Service Pack 2 (SP2) will cause problems with about one out of every 10 PC running Windows XP, according to research published Tuesday by a Canadian asset-monitoring service provider. | 3 |
Sanyo to jointly develop HD-DVD with Toshiba, NEC OSAKA, Aug 31, 2004 (Kyodo via COMTEX) -- Sanyo Electric Co. will jointly develop a next-generation DVD format, called HD-DVD, with Toshiba Corp. | 3 |
Legendary status eludes Schu Michael Schumacher #39;s performances this season have shown the world why, even at the most difficult tracks in the world, he remains peerless in Formula One. | 1 |
Borders dealt to Twins for outfielder Garbe The Mariners traded catcher Pat Borders to the Minnesota Twins today, in exchange for BJ Garbe, a minor league outfielder from Moses Lake. | 1 |
Kyle Eckel Nominated For The Doak Walker Award DALLAS, TEXAS - The SMU Athletic Forum announced today the names of the candidates for the 2004 Doak Walker Award, presented annually to the nation #39;s top college running back. | 1 |
Francis spurns offer to join Hurricanes #39; front office RALEIGH, NC - Ron Francis apparently won #39;t join the front office of the Carolina Hurricanes, the team he led to the Stanley Cup finals two years ago. | 1 |
Two bus blasts in southern Israel kill 16 At least 16 Israelis were killed Tuesday and almost 100 injured when two Palestinians aboard buses blew themselves up within seconds of each other. | 0 |
Female Bomber Kills 9 in Moscow, Officials Say A female bomber detonated an explosion outside a subway station in Moscow this evening, killing herself and at least 9 others and wounding 37, officials said. | 0 |
WTO: Nations Can Retaliate Against US Description: The World Trade Organization tells US trading partners they can retaliate against the United States over the so-called Byrd Amendment. | 2 |
Japan megabank turns deaf ear IN many markets, investor response to Sumitomo Mitsui Financial Group #39;s 1-for-1 merger offer to UFJ Holdings would have been predictable and nearly instantaneous. | 2 |
Eye On Stocks For Wednesday, Sept. 1 A much-watched Alzheimer #39;s medicine Forest Laboratories (nyse: FRX - news - people ) was developing with Germany #39;s Merz failed to show a statistically significant benefit in a clinical trial. | 2 |
United Airlines plans to recall nearly 375 flight attendants United Airlines, the world #39;s second-largest airline, is recalling nearly 375 flight attendants to increase that work force about 2 percent as it boosts international flights and keeps its aircraft flying for more hours. | 2 |
Update 3: Oil Prices Drop \$1 Despite Iraq Sabotage Oil futures dropped by nearly \$1 per barrel Monday despite pipeline sabotage in Iraq that has delayed exports from a southern port - reinforcing the view among traders that prices had risen too fast earlier this summer. | 2 |
China temporarily suspends IPOs China said Tuesday it will temporarily suspend initial public offerings until it comes up with new rules on share offer pricing. The China Securities Regulatory Commission | 2 |
Report Shows CEO Pay Soars at Companies That Outsource Overseas CEOs at companies that outsource the most US jobs are rewarded with bigger paychecks, according to a new report, quot;Executive Excess 2004: Campaign Contributions, Outsourcing, Unexpensed Stock | 2 |
FCC Asks Supreme Court To Rule on Broadband The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) has asked the Supreme Court to hear an appeal that could determine whether cable broadband providers can be forced to open their networks to other Internet providers. | 3 |
SANYO to Adopt HD DVD Standard to Develop Next Generation DVDs TOKYO --(Business Wire)-- Aug. 31, 2004 -- SANYO Electric Co., Ltd. (SANYO) has decided to adopt the HD DVD standard promoted in the DVD forum, an international association that brings together some 220 consumer | 3 |
McGill A Doak Walker Award Candidate DALLAS, TEXAS - University of North Carolina sophomore tailback Ronnie McGill is on the preseason list of candidates for the Doak Walker Award, announced today by the SMU Athletic Forum. | 1 |
Video May Show Deaths of Nepalese Hostages Description: Video is posted on a website that could show the execution in Iraq of 12 hostages from Nepal. The hostages came to Iraq to work as cooks and cleaners for a Jordanian firm. | 0 |
HDTV 'Starter' Kit for PC Comes with Some Kinks (Reuters) Reuters - High-definition television can\show the sweat beading on an athlete's brow, but the cost of\all the necessary electronic equipment can get a shopper's own\pulse racing. | 3 |
Video Game Sales Seen Pausing After Record 2003 (Reuters) Reuters - Video game sales soared to a record\ #36;18.2 billion last year, but the days of strong growth are on\pause as players await a new generation of consoles in 2005 and\2006, a new study showed on Wednesday. | 3 |
Argentina Rebuffs IMF Managing Director (Reuters) Reuters - In a tense meeting\marred by violent street protests, Argentine President Nestor\Kirchner on Tuesday told the head of the IMF to "not even\dream" of Argentina setting aside more money to pay its\defaulted debt. | 2 |
WTO OKs Trade Sanctions Against U.S. (Reuters) Reuters - The European Union and its allies got\the go-ahead on Tuesday to impose some #36;150 million in\sanctions on U.S. goods in a dispute that could stir trade\tensions ahead of the U.S. elections. | 2 |
At least 10 killed, more than 50 hurt in explosions near Moscow subway station (Canadian Press) Canadian Press - MOSCOW (AP) - A woman strapped with explosives blew herself up outside a busy Moscow subway station Tuesday night, killing at least 10 people and wounding more than 50 - the second terrorist attack to hit Russia in a week. | 0 |
Rights group says libel suit deepens assault on Thailand's media (AFP) AFP - US-based Human Rights Watch warned that a libel suit against critics of Thai Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra filed by a corporation he founded, along with increasing government pressure on the media was threatening to stifle press freedom in Thailand. | 0 |
Trail Blazers Agree to Terms With Miles (AP) AP - The Portland Trail Blazers agreed to terms with restricted free agent Darius Miles on Tuesday. | 1 |
New Front: Recording of Digital Broadcasts (AP) AP - Technologies that let people record satellite and Internet radio broadcasts digitally are opening a new front in the recording industry's war on music piracy. | 3 |
Wayne Rooney Joins Manchester United (AP) AP - Wayne Rooney joined Manchester United on Tuesday despite a last minute holdup caused by his broken foot. | 1 |
Apple Expo: Apple intros iMac G5 (MacCentral) MacCentral - Apple's senior vice-president of worldwide marketing, Phil Schiller, took\a cue from his boss, CEO Steve Jobs, as he unveiled one more thing at the\end of his keynote to kick off this week's Apple Expo in Paris: an iMac G5 that includes the entire\system inside a 17- or 20-inch LCD screen. Continuing the all-in-one theme\that started with the original CRT iMac, the G5 edition features a new\industrial design that does away with the hemispherical base of the previous\generation all together. Schiller said that the new iMacs will be available\in mid-September. | 3 |
Sweden Skates Past Germany 5-2 in Worlds (AP) AP - Mats Sundin had a goal and two assists to lead Sweden past Germany 5-2 Tuesday in the World Cup of Hockey opener for both teams. | 1 |
Citadel Postpones Opener Over Hurricane (AP) AP - The Citadel has postponed its home opener against nearby Charleston Southern because of the potential that Hurricane Frances could be off the coast of South Carolina this weekend. | 1 |
Philips, Samsung Partner on NFC Technology (NewsFactor) NewsFactor - Korea-based Samsung is preparing to develop mobile devices that\use Philips (NYSE: PHG) NFC chips, as the two electronics giants join forces to push a\nascent touch-based wireless technology called "near field communication"\(NFC). | 3 |
Novell Revamps Business Units (NewsFactor) NewsFactor - Novell (Nasdaq: NOVL) is launching an internal reorganization to emphasize its Linux expertise, according to news accounts. By combining its Nterprise and Linux operations into one overall Platform and Application Service group, Novell will be able to better concentrate on the enterprise Linux market. | 3 |
Consumers Anxious About Lack of Hiring NEW YORK (Reuters) - U.S. consumer confidence sank in August while Chicago-area business activity slowed, according to reports on Tuesday that added to worries the economy's patch of sluggish growth may last beyond the summer. | 2 |
Woods' Play May Influence New TV Golf Deal (AP) AP - The PGA Tour has always had an impeccable sense of timing when it comes to negotiating television contracts. | 1 |
Burst Attorney Deposes Microsoft Chairman (AP) AP - An attorney for a software company suing Microsoft Corp. for alleged anticompetitive behavior deposed Bill Gates last week and plans to ask a judge to make the testimony public. | 3 |
Kerry Will Buy #36;45M TV Time in 20 States (AP) AP - Previewing its fall strategy, John Kerry's presidential campaign will buy #36;45 million worth of commercial time in 20 states through Election Day, including spots on cable television and advertising geared toward minorities. | 0 |
Analyst: CRM, Supply-Chain Software To Lead Spending (NewsFactor) NewsFactor - Over the next several years, an increasingly larger share of I.T. budgets will go toward externally facing applications, according to Yankee Group. | 3 |
WTO OKs Trade Sanctions Against U.S. GENEVA (Reuters) - The European Union and its allies got the go-ahead on Tuesday to impose some \$150 million in sanctions on U.S. goods in a dispute that could stir trade tensions ahead of the U.S. elections. | 2 |
iMac G5 Debuts as World's Thinnest Desktop (NewsFactor) NewsFactor - With a belief that less is more, Apple (Nasdaq: AAPL) has taken the wraps off its iMac G5, featuring a new design that integrates the entire computer into the flat-panel display. | 3 |
Davenport Marches Into Second Round NEW YORK (Reuters) - American favorite Lindsay Davenport chalked up her 18th successive victory Tuesday when she beat Lubomira Kurhajcova 6-4, 6-0 to cruise through to the second round of the U.S. Open. | 1 |
Argentina Rebuffs IMF Managing Director BUENOS AIRES, Argentina (Reuters) - In a tense meeting marred by violent street protests, Argentine President Nestor Kirchner on Tuesday told the head of the IMF to "not even dream" of Argentina setting aside more money to pay its defaulted debt. | 2 |
Kerry Faults Bush for WTO Sanctions Threat Democratic presidential candidate John Kerry on Tuesday accused the Bush administration of failing to protect American jobs from unfair foreign competition after the World | 2 |
Company chiefs who outsource jobs earn more, study finds WASHINGTON Chief executives of US companies that outsourced the greatest number of jobs reaped bigger pay and benefits last year than those from other companies, according to a study of executive compensation released Tuesday. | 2 |
Sanofi #39;s first-half profit rises 21 PARIS Sanofi-Synthlabo, which this month completed its \$63 billion purchase of a rival drug manufacturer, Aventis, reported Tuesday a 21 percent jump in first-half profit on higher demand for the blood thinner Plavix and the cancer treatment Eloxatin. | 2 |
Raiders Finally Sign Woodson ALAMEDA, California (Sports Network) - Oakland cornerback Charles Woodson finally ended a lengthy holdout Tuesday and signed the Raiders' one-year tender. The deal is reportedly worth \$8.782 million for the upcoming season. | 1 |
Dollar Ends Lower, Focus Turns to ISM NEW YORK (Reuters) - The dollar finished lower versus major currencies on Tuesday after weaker-than-expected U.S. consumer confidence and regional manufacturing reports opened the door to some profit-taking. | 2 |
Credit Suisse to Integrate Units ZURICH (Reuters) - Credit Suisse will integrate investment bank Credit Suisse First Boston with its private bank and aims to float its Winterthur insurance arm, the bank said on Tuesday, setting itself tough earnings goals. | 2 |
Sweden Opens Hockey World Cup with Win Over Germany STOCKHOLM (Reuters) - Toronto Maple Leafs captain Mats Sundin shone in Sweden's opening 5-2 win over Germany at the World Cup of Hockey Tuesday, scoring once and providing two assists in a match with contrasting team tactics. | 1 |
Veritas Software to buy KVault e-mail archiver NEW YORK Veritas Software, the largest independent US storage software provider, will buy the e-mail backup company KVault Software for \$225 million in cash, Veritas said Tuesday. | 3 |
Sanyo to Produce HD-DVD Players Sanyo Electric, an established maker of optical drives and components, will produce both components and players for the blue-laser-based HD-DVD format, the company says. | 3 |
Korzhanenko Still Refusing to Return Gold Medal MOSCOW (Reuters) - Russia's Olympic shot put champion Irina Korzhanenko, stripped of her gold medal after a drugs test, said Tuesday she was determined to keep her medal because she is innocent. | 1 |
Tennis: Justine Henin-Hardenne Advances to 2nd Round of US Open Defending champion and top-seed Justine Henin-Hardenne fought off a surprising challenge Tuesday before moving into the second round of the US Open tennis tournament in New York. | 1 |
Juventus signs two stars at deadline Torino, Italy (Sports Network) - Juventus served notice of its intentions Tuesday, acquiring Italian national team captain Fabio Cannavaro and talented Swedish striker Zlatan Ibrahimovic. | 1 |
Baseball: Cubs and Red Sox, in lock step, stagger toward their <b>...</b> They are not sad sacks, in point of fact, the Boston Red Sox and the Chicago Cubs, or are they, inevitably? In a loony, heartbreaking coincidence, they each collapsed just short of the World Series a year | 1 |
Albertsons Profit Falls NEW YORK (Reuters) - Albertsons Inc. <A HREF="http://www.investor.reuters.com/FullQuote.aspx?ticker=ABS.N target=/stocks/quickinfo/fullquote">ABS.N</A>, the second-largest U.S. grocer, on Tuesday reported a substantial drop in second-quarter profit due to costly promotions aimed at reviving sales following a Southern California labor strike. | 2 |
Highest Labor Day Pump Prices Expected NEW YORK (Reuters) - A record number of Americans planning one last summer road trip this weekend will shell out the highest Labor Day gasoline prices ever seen, and there's little relief in sight, experts said on Tuesday. | 2 |
Final Atlas 2 Rocket Again Delayed by Weather (Reuters) Reuters - Thunderstorms kept the\final flight of the Atlas 2 rocket, built by Lockheed Martin\Corp., on its Florida launch pad on Monday, the fourth time in\as many days the rocket has missed its liftoff. | 3 |
Putin Sees Al-Qaida in Twin Air Crashes President Vladimir Putin said Tuesday that investigators were looking for a link between al-Qaida and Chechen rebels widely believed to have downed two planes last week. | 0 |
UK Seeks Global Support for Stem Cell Research (Reuters) Reuters - Britain's leading scientific institution\said Monday it is urging countries to back a campaign to stop a\possible ban on stem cell research as part of a global treaty\banning human cloning. | 3 |
Mismatch Turns Competitive as Henin-Hardenne Faces Rookie What appeared to be a mismatch took a turn for the competitive in the second set before Henin-Hardenne regrouped to win, 6-1, 6-4. | 1 |
Two Neptune-Mass Planets Found, Earth-Size Worlds Next (SPACE.com) SPACE.com - Planet hunters have found two worlds roughly the mass of Neptune, each orbiting a star within 30 light-years of our solar system. The planets are likely gaseous or mixtures of ice and rock, but they might be barren rock worlds like Mercury. | 3 |
Getting a Grip on Antimatter (SPACE.com) SPACE.com - Research into what separates matter from antimatter is accelerating in particle physics experiments around the world. Scientists are hoping the difference will help explain why you, me and all the things around us are made of matter instead of its opposite. | 3 |
Snyder Takes Stake in Six Flags Pressure from Microsoft chairman and shareholder Bill Gates over a sagging financial outlook and news that Washington Redskins owner Daniel Snyder has bought nearly 9 percent of Six Flags, Inc. drove the amusement park company's shares up more than 25 percent Tuesday. | 2 |
IRA High on Agenda as Northern Irish Talks Open BELFAST (Reuters) - A decade after the Irish Republican Army's (IRA) first cease-fire came into force, negotiations open in Northern Ireland on Wednesday aimed at reaching a deal to stand down the guerrilla group. | 0 |
U.S. Seeks Quick UN Vote Warning Syria on Lebanon UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) - Washington on Tuesday swept aside objections from Beirut and called for a Security Council vote within days on a draft resolution to put pressure on Syria to respect Lebanese sovereignty. | 0 |
Court Hears Case of Brain Damaged Woman (AP) AP - The Florida Supreme Court questioned lawyers Tuesday about the extent of the power handed to Gov. Jeb Bush under a law that let him order the reinsertion of a brain-damaged woman's feeding tube. | 3 |
Tribunal to Consider Defense Lawyer for Milosevic THE HAGUE (Reuters) - Former Yugoslav President Slobodan Milosevic wraps up the opening statement of his war crimes trial defense on Wednesday after launching a counterblast to charges of ethnic cleansing in the Balkans in the 1990s. | 0 |
Outside camp walls, life still treacherous for Darfur refugees Despite government claims, insecurity remains in western Sudan. | 0 |
Kidnappings backfire on Iraq militants The kidnapping of French journalists has sparked anger across a broad spectrum of the Muslim world. | 0 |
Beersheba bombers skirt the wall In Israel's worst terrorist attack in six months, two buses were hit by suicide bombers Tuesday. | 0 |
Slavery is not dead, just less recognizable. Today, 27 million people are enslaved, more than at the height of the transatlantic slave trade. | 0 |
Astronomers see two new planets US astronomers find the smallest worlds detected circling other stars and say it is a breakthrough in the search for life in space. | 0 |
Business Week taps new editor Business Week has reached outside its own ranks and into those of The Wall Street Journal to name a new editor in chief. The 75-year-old financial magazine said yesterday that Stephen J. Adler | 2 |
Tennis: Henman battles through Tim Henman overcomes a back injury to beat Ivo Karlovic at the US Open. | 0 |
Lazard plans to go public by 2005 When Michel David-Weill, chairman of Lazard LLC, chose Bruce Wasserstein to run his mergers advisory firm in November 2001, he said his new employee was quot;a fiercely independent and original adviser. | 2 |
UK no longer top asylum nation The UK has been replaced by France as the top destination for asylum seekers in the industrialised world, says the UN. | 0 |
A cure for shortage? It #39;s too late for this year #39;s flu season, but a Canadian drug company yesterday said it has agreed to provide influenza vaccines to Henry Schein Inc. | 2 |
Panel Says Conrad Black Ran a 'Corporate Kleptocracy' Conrad Black and other controlling shareholders of Hollinger used \$400 million for personal perks, a new report says. | 2 |
Policeman accuses Gujarat BJP Gujarat politicians prevented police from carrying out their duties during riots in 2002, a senior policeman says. | 0 |
Judge Rules \$60 Million Can't Be Withheld From Ex-Freddie Mac Chief The ruling was a setback for regulators seeking to strip the compensation of a former Freddie Mac chief executive for his alleged role in the company's accounting scandal. | 2 |
Albertson's Labors Over Results The leading supermarket chain is still feeling the impact of its labor dispute. | 2 |
A Mirage or a Great Speculation? United Rentals' stock sinks sharply as the SEC investigates the company. | 2 |
Credit Tete-a-Tete Two credit junkies talk about couples and credit, the real FICO, and conspiracies. | 2 |
(Hot) Dog of the Day A new distribution deal in Russia makes Ipix look better, unless you look closely. | 2 |
Can Tommy Cut It? Tommy Hilfiger is the latest exec to get a reality show. Will it help company sales? | 2 |
Protesters Heed Calls for Widespread Civil Disobedience Some anti-war demonstrators prepared to symbolically "die" as near as possible to the site of the Republican National Convention. | 0 |
Twin Bus Bombings in Israel Kill at Least 15 and Wound Dozens The Palestinian militant group Hamas reportedly took responsibility for the near-simultaneous blasts. | 0 |
Vice chairman quits Wal-Mart Thomas Coughlin, who joined Wal-Mart Stores as head of security and rose to vice chairman, will give up the post early next year after 25 years of service that helped the company become the world #39;s biggest retailer. | 2 |
Actress Theron Hurt on Germany Film Set LOS ANGELES - Oscar-winning actress Charlize Theron was injured while shooting her new Paramount film, "Aeon Flux," in Germany, but her representatives aren't saying how badly she was hurt. Theron suffered the unspecified injury while doing her own stunts in a wire-hanging action sequence, the movie's publicist, Jeanmarie Carrasco, told The Associated Press Tuesday... | 0 |
Safin Makes Early Exit at U.S. Open NEW YORK - Just like at Wimbledon two months ago, Marat Safin exited at the earliest stage of the U.S. Open on Tuesday, bowing meekly to Thomas Enqvist 7-6 (5), 6-4, 3-6, 6-3... | 0 |
12 Nepalese Hostages Said Slain in Iraq BAGHDAD, Iraq - A gruesome video posted on a Web site purported to show militants beheading a Nepalese worker and shooting 11 others in the first mass slaying of foreign hostages during the Iraqi insurgency. If confirmed, it would raise the number of foreign workers known to have been slain by extremists to at least 22 in a terror campaign aimed at forcing foreign troops and contract workers out of the country.... | 0 |
Bush Recants, Says Terror War Will Be Won NASHVILLE, Tenn. - President Bush said repeatedly on Tuesday that the United States will win its war against terrorism, trying to contain political damage from the doubt he expressed a day earlier... | 0 |
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