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Auto Stocks Surge After Weak Sales DETROIT (Reuters) - General Motors Corp. <A HREF="http://www.investor.reuters.com/FullQuote.aspx?ticker=GM.N target=/stocks/quickinfo/fullquote">GM.N</A> on Thursday led a late-day rally in auto stocks, one day after the world's largest automaker posted dismal U.S. sales results for August and cut vehicle production. | 2 |
FSU-Miami Showdown and Florida Opener Postponed by Hurricane MIAMI (Sports Network) - Add the marquee showdown between fifth-ranked Florida State and No. 6 Miami-Florida to the list of sporting events postponed by Hurricane Frances. | 1 |
Payless Sales Drop, President Exits NEW YORK (Reuters) - Footwear chain Payless ShoeSource Inc. <A HREF="http://www.investor.reuters.com/FullQuote.aspx?ticker=PSS.N target=/stocks/quickinfo/fullquote">PSS.N</A> on Thursday posted worse-than-expected sales at stores open at least a year in August and said its president, Duane Cantrell, will step down effective immediately, sending its shares down 8 percent. | 2 |
Season Over for Cardinals' Shipp TEMPE, Ariz. (Sports Network) - The Arizona Cardinals placed running back Marcel Shipp and fullback James Hodgins on injured reserve Wednesday night, effectively ending their seasons. | 1 |
U.N. Warns Syria Against Interfering in Lebanon UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) - A U.S.-drafted resolution telling Syria to withdraw its forces from Lebanon and warning against foreign interference in Beirut's presidential election squeaked through the U.N. Security Council on Thursday. | 0 |
Argentina Clears Suspects in Anti-Jewish Bomb BUENOS AIRES, Argentina (Reuters) - An Argentine court on Thursday acquitted five suspected accomplices in the 1994 bombing of a Jewish community center in which 85 people were killed and ordered new probes into the case's botched investigation. | 0 |
Herbert Haft Redefined The Rules of Retail In the Washington retail landscape, only a few signs of Herbert H. Haft's business empire remain. But his contribution to the way Americans shop is felt every day by just about any consumer who buys a product at a discount. | 2 |
Lieber Shines, Distancing Yankees From 'a Dark Time' Aided by a majestic three-run home run by Alex Rodriguez and three hits and three runs batted in by Gary Sheffield, Jon Lieber won for the first time since Aug. 13. | 1 |
Stunning Herself, a Young Russian Ousts Myskina Anna Chakvetadze, a qualifier ranked 175th in the world, jolted the U.S. Open on Thursday with an upset victory over Anastasia Myskina, 7-6 (3), 6-3. | 1 |
Despite Loss, the Giants' Line Shows Progress Kurt Warner's first preseason as the Giants' starting quarterback ended ominously as he was sacked twice more Thursday night. | 1 |
Haiti Won't Yield to Rebel Demands, President Says PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (Reuters) - Haitian President Boniface Alexandre said on Thursday his administration would not give in to rebels who took over a southern town six days ago to back demands for the reestablishment of the army. | 0 |
Riggs Probe Finds Evidence of Crimes Riggs Bank investigators have found evidence of possible criminal activities by some former employees who managed the accounts of former Chilean dictator Augusto Pinochet and have referred their findings to federal prosecutors, according to several sources. | 2 |
Americans Fail to Match Russians' Level of Desire For the second time in two games, the veteran United States team was outscored, outshot, outskated and outplayed in the World Cup of Hockey tournament. | 1 |
Iraq Militants Kill Three Turks, Bomb Oil Pipeline BAGHDAD (Reuters) - Militants bombed Iraq's northern oil pipeline to Turkey on Thursday, halting exports, and killed three Turkish hostages in a campaign to wreck reconstruction efforts and undermine the interim government. | 0 |
Wall Street Looks to Voters NEW YORK, Sept. 2 -- The stock market went whisper quiet this week as Republicans convened in Madison Square Garden to renominate George W. Bush for president. | 2 |
Bribery Considered, Halliburton Notes Suggest An internal Halliburton Co. investigation has uncovered handwritten notes suggesting that former employees considered offering bribes to Nigerian officials a decade ago to secure work in a \$5 billion project to build a natural gas liquefaction plant. | 2 |
In Normally Strong August, Retail Sales Rise by 1.1 Percent From department stores to discounters, the nation's retailers reported sluggish August sales yesterday as consumers cut back spending during the generally lucrative back-to-school shopping month. | 2 |
Team's play lately has been divine We need a name for these guys. The Yankee Clippers? The Sons of Tito? How about the No More Nomars? | 1 |
Discount Retailing Giant Stoked Bitter Family Feud Herbert H. Haft, 84, the Washington area discount retailer whose drive to sell drugs at cut-rate prices made him a multimillionaire and whose empire dissolved in a nasty and very public family feud in the 1990s, died Thursday at Sibley Memorial Hospital. | 2 |
Ratings say Red Sox are team to watch Wednesday night's Red Sox-Angels game was the highest-rated telecast in NESN's 20-year history, returning a 15.1 rating in the Boston market. The audience peaked at an 18.8 rating during the quarter-hour beginning at 9 p.m. | 1 |
China set for surge in car sales The number of cars on China's roads is set to rise sevenfold to 140 million by 2020, according to government forecasts. | 2 |
Intel gloom weighs on chip stocks Intel, the world's leading computer chip maker, slashes its revenue forecasts, triggering a decline in global chip stocks. | 2 |
Mobile phone sales grow strongly Global mobile phone sales grew 35 to over 150 million in the second quarter, say industry analysts Gartner. | 2 |
NL notables The Mets' Jeff Keppinger got his first major league steal in the seventh, swiping second. | 1 |
AL notables The Yankees have won 10 of their last 11 home games against Cleveland. Baltimore outscored Tampa Bay, 31-8, in the three-game series. | 1 |
CBI boss blasts 'outdated' unions The leader of the CBI has launched his strongest attack on the unions to date, claiming they are becoming "irrelevant". | 2 |
Yankees pummel Indians That record-setting defeat appears to have stirred up the Yankees. Gary Sheffield had three RBIs to reach 100 for the seventh time, Alex Rodriguez hit a three-run homer, and Jon Lieber pitched seven shutout innings to lead the Yankees to their second straight win, 9-1 over the Cleveland Indians last night in New York. | 1 |
File this one as a missing persons report Not many questions were answered last night at Razor Blade Field but one question, at least, was obvious. Who were those guys? | 1 |
UK house prices retreat in August UK house prices fell by 0.6 in August as recent interest rate rises took hold, the Halifax says. | 2 |
Davey's spot secured Patriots fans, for better or worse, received a long, hard look at Tom Brady's backup last night. | 1 |
Browns ready to rebound On a recent campaign stop, President Bush dropped in to visit the Cleveland Browns before one of their training camp practices. | 1 |
21:53 Sonny : ah voil la connexion au PC remarche Dans une newsletter envoye ses abonns, Electronic Arts a rvl une information trs intressante : un nouveau Command amp; Conquer est en prparation. | 3 |
Ogden injures knee Baltimore All-Pro tackle Jonathan Ogden sprained his left knee late in the first quarter of the Ravens' 27-17 win over the New York Giants last night in East Rutherford, N.J., and was helped from the field. | 1 |
UN backs Lebanon sovereignty call The Security Council calls for foreign troops to leave Lebanon - a move aimed at reducing Syrian influence. | 0 |
He has been making his mark on defense They threw Carlos Bocanegra into the deep end of the soccer field last December. A few days after Bocanegra arrived in London to play for Fulham FC, he was assigned to mark Newcastle United's forwards, including scoring machine Alan Shearer. | 1 |
Risks on both sides seen in Kobe Bryant civil case EAGLE, Colo. -- In pressing on with her civil suit against NBA star Kobe Bryant, the woman accusing him of rape will not have to meet the higher standard of proof required in a criminal case. | 1 |
Frances postpones games Florida State and Miami will still play in prime time, just four days later than planned. | 1 |
Wildcat strike stuns Hens One might assume there was little reason for optimism. The University of New Hampshire, a once-mighty Division 1-AA program that has posted just one winning record since 1997, entered last night's game against defending Division 1-AA national champion and top-ranked Delaware battling staph infections that sidelined many of its players. | 1 |
UK jail suicides at record high Figures seen by the BBC show that in August self-inflicted deaths in English prisons reached a new monthly high. | 0 |
No softening on EU-US air subsidy row A Trans-Atlantic row over European and American state subsidies to aircraft manufacturers has not softened after a first meeting between EU and US trade negotiators. | 2 |
Low fat diets 'as good as Atkins' Low fat diets are as good as the Atkins diet when it comes to losing weight over the long term, a study says. | 0 |
Return man back for more There wasn't much more Will Blackmon could have done for his Boston College teammates in last night's 19-11 victory over Ball State. | 1 |
Rhodies form band The secret, if there is one, cannot be found in the sea air. But if the Atlantic could be credited for the growing tidal wave of Rhode Islanders who have washed over the PGA in recent years, then Bristol's Billy Andrade figures the winning formula must be traced to the clams. quot;Yeah, I'd say it's the littlenecks, quot; mused ... | 1 |
Tennis: Agassi goes through Andre Agassi goes through after Florian Mayer is forced to retire injured. | 0 |
Kim states her case with 62 Christina Kim made 11 birdies and tied the tournament record of 10-under-par 62 yesterday for a two-shot lead after the opening round of the LPGA State Farm Classic in Springfield, Ill. | 1 |
Baseball star's mother abducted The Venezuelan mother of major league baseball pitcher Ugueth Urbina is kidnapped near Caracas. | 0 |
Merrimack Valley Conference ANDOVER Coach: Ken Maglio (ninth year, 37-46-2). Last year's record: 5-6. Returning starters (13): Mike Cerchione, OT/DT, 6-4, 255, Sr.; Buddy Farnham, WR/S, 6-0, 176, Jr.; John Fox, WR/DB, 5-10, 170, Sr.; Shaheen Ghandchi, RB/DB, 5-9, 177, Sr.; Mike Gustin, G/DT, 6-0, 253, Sr.; Matt Hennessey, RB/DB, 5-8, 193, Sr.; Kyle MacKenzie, G/DT, 6-0, 217, Sr.; Matt Martin, WR/DB, 5-9, ... | 1 |
In serious condition We have managed to keep the major pieces of our fabled Boston healthcare institutions more or less intact so far, but the relentless market keeps testing the system, looking for the weakest link. | 2 |
Plenty of highlights on this trip Nowhere does the rivalry between the Evil Empire and Red Sox Nation crackle more intensely than here, on the quot;campus quot; of ESPN, built smack on the not-so-well-defined emotional boundary between New York and Boston. | 1 |
Target to pay \$1m in item price suit Target Corp. has agreed to pay \$1 million to settle a class-action lawsuit alleging it failed to stamp prices on merchandise, the fourth in a string of agreements over the past two years costing major retailers more than \$8 million in fees and millions more in compliance measures. | 2 |
'Zippy' chipper despite loss A couple of the somebodies around here are going to walk away from Flushing Meadow with a million bucks apiece in their petty cash stash. You can call them champ. | 1 |
US Airways passengers check options US Airways is dangerously close to its second Chapter 11 filing in two years, a bankruptcy that could cripple the airline and its frequent fliers if it fails to cut costs severely. | 2 |
For local businesses, not much of a boost NEW YORK -- Two blocks south of Madison Square Garden, in a microcosm of what New Yorkers have been experiencing all week in this busy midtown neighborhood, a few feet of pavement told a tale of two cities. | 2 |
Today's schedule Pro baseball: Texas vs. Red Sox at Fenway Park, 7 p.m.; International League -- Rochester vs. Pawtucket at McCoy Stadium, Pawtucket, R.I., 7 p.m. | 1 |
Data mixed on economy WASHINGTON -- A string of government reports yesterday offered a mixed picture of the US economy. | 2 |
Intel lowers quarterly forecast High-tech bellwether Intel Corp. lowered its financial outlook yesterday, providing the latest sign of the economy's doldrums. | 2 |
Sharing is part of program Thoroughbred racing will return to Rockingham Park for the first time since September 2002 when the Salem, N.H., track hosts three grass races Sunday. Rock will hold an 11-race card, with the first eight races harness contests. As far as the Rock publicity department can determine, it will be the first time standardbreds and thoroughbreds have shared a racing program. | 1 |
In fund scandal wake-up call, investors hit snooze A year after the mutual fund industry's biggest scandal, investors remain surprisingly ignorant of regulatory probes into trading schemes that bilked hundreds of millions of dollars from their portfolios, a survey said yesterday. | 2 |
Transactions BASEBALL Major League Baseball: Suspended Texas 3B coach Steve Smith two games and fined him an undisclosed amount for inappropriate actions and comments made to umpire Jerry Meals during an Aug. 25 game; suspended Chicago Cubs P Kent Mercker three games and fined him an undisclosed amount for inappropriate actions during an Aug. 27 game; suspended Houston manager Phil Garner ... | 1 |
Some trade their privacy for car-insurance discounts For two months, Jacob Sevlie's insurance company tagged along whenever he slid behind the wheel of his Honda Accord. An electronic monitor closely tracked Sevlie's driving time and behavior. If he had a heavy foot or was a sudden braker, the recorder would betray him. | 2 |
Bank's investment unit names executive Bank of America Corp.'s investment arm, Columbia Management , named Christopher Wilson head of mutual funds, replacing Kevin Connaughton, who will continue to work for the company. Connaughton held the position in an interim capacity, a spokeswoman said. He moved over from FleetBoston Financial Corp. , where he was head of mutual funds, in the companies' April 1 merger. The ... | 2 |
Continental Airlines to cut 425 jobs Continental Airlines Inc. said yesterday it would cut about 425 jobs, or 1 percent of its work force, through staff reductions, attrition, and elimination of unfilled vacancies as part of an effort to trim expenses by another \$200 million. | 2 |
Cats may carry the bird flu virus \The bird flu virus that can kill humans has the potential to be spread by cats, scientists have found. | 0 |
Purchased unit mulled bribes, says Halliburton HOUSTON -- Halliburton Co. says an internal investigation has found that a consortium it later took over had once considered bribing Nigerian officials to win an energy contract. | 2 |
First black judge joining British High Court Britain appointed its first black High Court judge yesterday and she predicted she would be ''the first of many. quot; The Department for Constitutional Affairs confirmed the appointment of Linda Dobbs, 53, the first black lawyer promoted beyond the ranks of circuit judges, who hear lesser cases. Joining the High Court will give her access to some of the country's most ... | 0 |
Three Turkish hostages believed killed BAGHDAD -- A Paris newspaper editor said there had been positive movement in the effort to free two captive French journalists yesterday, while a separate militant group said it had killed three Turkish captives. | 0 |
Accused deserter set to face Army trial TOKYO -- Responding to Sergeant Charles Robert Jenkins's pledge to surrender after spending four decades in North Korea, US military officials say they are ready to put the frail 64-year-old back in uniform, give him a haircut, set him up in on-base housing -- and then try him for desertion. | 0 |
July Factory Orders Exceeded Forecasts; Productivity Pace Slows July factory orders rose the most in four months, exceeding forecasts, and productivity gains slowed last quarter. | 2 |
Qaeda link seen as bid to deflect criticism MOSCOW -- President Vladimir V. Putin depicts rebels in Chechnya as part of the international terrorist threat spearheaded by Al Qaeda. But analysts say the Chechen insurgency remains largely a nationalist movement aimed at winning independence from Russia. | 0 |
US eyes fight on Sadr home turf BAGHDAD -- The fight with renegade Shi'ite cleric Moqtada al-Sadr is not over and the US military must retake his stronghold in Baghdad's Sadr City slum, a top US commander said yesterday. | 0 |
Bold Strokes, Few Details For a nation divided over his stewardship and dubious about the war with Iraq, President Bush had one overriding message: He's still the one. | 0 |
Children's Place Is to Be Heard The children's retailer turns in sparkling 21 same-store sales growth for August. | 2 |
As Florida Braces for 2nd Big Storm, the Flight Begins More than 2.5 million people along the water were asked to evacuate the largest number in state history. | 0 |
Xerces 2.6.1 and BOM \\XML which is UTF-16 encoded is supposed to have a prolog (first two bytes)\called a BOM of FF FE to signal that the feed you're about to parse is\multibyte. The only problem is that (and get this) Xerces doesn't support this\prolog!\\"Exception in thread "main" org.apache.commons.feedparser.FeedParserException:\org.jdom.JDOMException: Error in building from stream: Content is not allowed\in prolog.: Content is not allowed in prolog."\\Sam Ruby was nice enough to put out a bunch of unit tests for UTF-16 and\they won't even parse within Xerces.\\...\ | 3 |
Check Out Rojo \\John Battelle blogs about Rojo :\\"Yesterday I hung out with Chris Alden, a founder of the original Red Herring\who has moved his focus to publishing in a Web 2.0 world (in other words, a\fellow traveler). He's putting the finishing touches on a new publishing\platform/feed reader called Rojo (think "mojo") that he and his team have been\working on for quite some time now. It's moved into invitation-only beta\recently, and he gave me a tour. I liked it quite a bit. Think of it as a\second-generation RSS aggregator with some subtle social networking,\recommendation, and republishing juice."\\I co-founded Rojo about a year ago with Chris Alden and Mark Graham\(peace.net, iVillage, etc) after ...\\ | 3 |
Agassi Plows Ahead On a day when the French Open men's and women's champions lose and blame their defeats on fatigue, a bouncy, energetic Andre Agassi advances to the weekend for the 14th time in 19 U.S. Open appearances. | 1 |
0-for-2 in World Cup Russia outhustles the American squad and deals Team USA its second consecutive loss, 3-1, Thursday night. | 1 |
FSU-Miami Postponed Hurricane Frances forces the postponement of Monday's college football season opener between Florida State and Miami. | 1 |
Holdsclaw Practices Mystics forward Chamique Holdsclaw touched off more speculation Thursday by practicing with the team a day after being placed on the injured list. | 1 |
Will Hurricane Frances Clip Retailers? Chico's may be a hot retailer, but its Labor Day weekend looks threatened. | 2 |
Mids Need Motivation Coming off its third winning season in the last 20 years, Navy has looked sluggish on offense and uninspired overall during the last several weeks of practice. | 1 |
Red Sox Sweep Angels Derek Lowe pitches effectively into the eighth inning, and Boston takes control of the wild-card race Thursday night by completing a three-game sweep of Anaheim. | 1 |
English Seasoning For the Maryland Terrapins, however, it was hardly a routine preseason. The Terps spent 11 days in the birthplace of modern-day soccer, Britain. | 1 |
Web services patents fetch \$15.5 million SAN FRANCISCO--A mysterious bidder paid \$15.5 million Monday in a bankruptcy court auction of dozens of Internet-related patents--and then rushed out of the courtroom. | 2 |
Red Sox Take Control of AL Wild-Card Race The surging Boston Red Sox have seized control of the AL wild-card race - with an eye on winning their division. Derek Lowe (13-10) pitched effectively into the eighth inning and Boston completed a three-game sweep of the Anaheim Angels with a 4-3 victory Thursday night - the Red Sox's season-high ninth straight win... | 0 |
Editor: Hostages in Iraq Given to Group BAGHDAD, Iraq - A Paris newspaper editor said Thursday that two French journalists held by kidnappers were turned over to an Iraqi opposition group, raising hopes that they could soon be released. A separate militant group in Iraq said it had killed three Turkish captives... | 0 |
Catholic Church Files for Bankruptcy While the city of Spokane is racing to get out of federal court, the local Catholic Church is plunging head-long in, and now the fate of the Spokane Diocese rests in the hands of a federal judge. | 2 |
Bush Pledges 'Nothing Will Hold Us Back' NEW YORK - President Bush picked apart John Kerry's record on the Iraq war and tax cuts Thursday night and summoned the nation toward victory over terrorism and economic security at home. "Nothing will hold us back," he said in a Republican National Convention acceptance speech that launched his fall re-election campaign... | 0 |
1,000 People May Be in Russian School BESLAN, Russia - Heavily armed militants who seized a school three days ago are holding at least 1,000 students, teachers and parents hostage inside the building, far more than previously thought, a released hostage and a regional official said. Russian officials had said that about 350 people were being held by raiders who seized the school in the North Ossetian city of Beslan on Wednesday... | 0 |
Four China Aviation Execs Surrender Passports To Police-2 SINGAPORE (Dow Jones)--China Aviation Oil Singapore Corp. (C47.SG) Tuesday said four executives have surrendered their passports to Singapore police as the investigation into Singapore #39;s worst financial scandal continues. | 2 |
Turkish Captives in Iraq Executed, Videotape Shows A militant group run by a Jordanian-born insurgent released a videotape showing its members killing three men identified as Turkish hostages, according to al-Jazeera television. | 0 |
UPDATE: Intel lowers Q3 revenue estimates SAN FRANCISCO - Citing lower than expected product sales, Intel Corp. on Thursday lowered its revenue expectations for the third quarter of its 2004 fiscal year, which ends on Sept. 25. | 2 |
RNC - Stock options top tech lobbying list at convention NEW YORK - While the prime-time speeches at Madison Square Garden occupy center stage at this week's Republican National Convention, much of the event's real politicking is taking place at hundreds of private receptions scattered throughout Manhattan. At two tech-focused gatherings Wednesday, industry companies, lobbying groups and politicians came together to network and consider the IT industry's legislative agenda. | 2 |
Body and brain of gamers probed The games industry could benefit from scientific "mood profiling" to develop hit games, researchers say. | 3 |
Slack security for old computers Less than 25 of old computers sold or given away by companies have had data removed, a survey suggests. | 3 |
IBM Recalls 553,000 Laptop Power Units Worldwide WASHINGTON (Reuters) - IBM said on Thursday it will recall about 553,000 AC power adapters worldwide for several models of its laptop computers because of potential fire and electrical shock hazards. | 3 |
Bribery Considered, Halliburton Notes Suggest An internal Halliburton Co. investigation has uncovered handwritten notes suggesting that former employees considered offering bribes to Nigerian officials a decade ago to secure work | 2 |
Allied Domecq Says Profit Rose on US Spirits Demand (Update2) Allied Domecq Plc, the world #39;s second- largest liquor maker, said fiscal 2004 earnings rose on US demand for spirits including Malibu rum. | 2 |
Rank to Sell Deluxe Movie Business After Profit Drop (Update3) Rank Group Plc, a UK distributor of movies for half a century, plans to exit the film industry after losses at its DVD and cinema production business. | 2 |
Southeast Asia Urged to Embrace Free Trade The leader of Southeast Asia #39;s biggest country, Indonesia, on Friday urged economic ministers from the region to put aside their differences and work toward economic integration akin to the European Union #39;s. | 2 |
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