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World horrified at bloody end to Russian hostage crisis (AFP) AFP - World leaders expressed horror at the bloody end to the Russian hostage crisis, calling it a tragedy which resulted from a quot;nauseating quot; and quot;barbaric quot; terrorist attack. | 0 |
Hestrie out of Golden contention For Hestrie Cloete, the season is all but over, as South Africa #39;s high jump world champion failed to continue her winning streak in the Golden League on Friday night in Brussels. | 1 |
BASEBALL: RED-HOT SOX CLIP THE ANGELS #39; WINGS BOSTON RED SOX fans are enjoying their best week of the season. While their beloved team swept wild-card rivals Anaheim in a three-game series to establish a nine-game winning streak, the hated New York Yankees endured the heaviest loss in their history. | 1 |
Lucky escape for Schuey MILAN: Michael Schumacher escaped unhurt after a heavy crash in testing at Monza on Thursday, days after the Ferrari driver won an unprecedented seventh Formula One title. | 1 |
Stunned rookie lands pole FONTANA ---- Brian Vickers #39; qualifying lap for Sunday #39;s Nextel Cup Pop Secret 500 felt almost too good to the rookie. quot;When you cross the line after a lap like that and everything feels awesome, you #39;re waiting | 1 |
Tiger in unfamiliar spot NORTON -- The most famous last name in golf history is locked in a tie for first place with the most recognized figure in the game after the first round of the second annual Deutsche Bank Championship. | 1 |
South Korea to explain uranium experiments at IAEA meetings this month (AFP) AFP - South Korean officials will meet with the UN nuclear watchdog this month to explain about controversial uranium enrichment tests conducted four years ago, Foreign Minister Ban Ki-Moon said. | 0 |
G Log Readies Launch Of Logistics Software Upgrade (TechWeb) TechWeb - Global Logistics Technologies Inc. plans to launch next week an upgrade of its logistics and transportation system. | 3 |
India, Pakistan in Talks to Nudge Peace Process NEW DELHI (Reuters) - India and Pakistan began talks on Saturday looking for ways to nudge forward a peace process that appears to be running into problems over their half-century dispute over the Kashmir region. | 0 |
Saints' Gleason apologizes for low blow Saints special teams captain Steve Gleason expects to be fined by the league after being ejected from Sunday's game against the Carolina Panthers for throwing a punch. | 1 |
Intel stock tumbles 7 after lowered outlook SAN FRANCISCO - Intel Corp. #39;s shares fell more than 7 percent yesterday, a day after the computer chip giant #39;s management lowered the company #39;s financial projections after concluding businesses and consumers aren #39;t in a spending mood. | 2 |
Bye Bye Byrd With the WTO giving India and seven other complainants the right to slap American imports with tariffs of their own, the US has ended up scoring an own goal. | 2 |
Ont. judge agrees to appoint Hollinger Inc. inspector An Ontario court judge has made the rare move of agreeing to appoint an inspector to probe related-party deals at Conrad Black #39;s Canadian holding company Hollinger Inc | 2 |
Distant planets, smaller than gas giants, found BOSTON American scientists say they have discovered two of the smallest planets ever detected outside our solar system - a sign, they said, that they are on the right track in the quest to find Earth-like planets that could potentially support life. | 3 |
SETIhome Signal Story Sees Much More Than Meets the Eye A recent article in New Scientist magazine, entitled Mysterious signals from 1000 light years away, implies that the UC Berkeley SETIhome project has uncovered a very convincing candidate | 3 |
Solberg takes early lead Solberg got off to an astonishing start, winning three of the opening four stages to charge into a 20-second lead before losing a handful of seconds to Loeb on stages five and six. | 1 |
US tops Slovakia, 3-1 It #39;s pretty rare that a first-ballot Hall of Famer, the third-leading goal-scorer in NHL history, gets benched. But the United States had opened the World Cup of | 1 |
RUGBY UNION: I WAS IN TOTAL CONTROL AT THE WORLD CUP.. NOW I #39;VE <b>...</b> SIR CLIVE WOODWARD left office yesterday still furious at the failure to build on England #39;s World Cup triumph. The biggest voice in the sport was never likely to go quietly but Woodward did not pull any punches | 1 |
Libya to pay victims of Berlin disco attack Libya has signed an agreement to pay \$35-million (US) in compensation for non-American victims in the 1986 bombing of a discotheque in West Berlin, the latest step in the country #39;s | 0 |
on the record: ISLAMABAD: Prime Minister Shaukat Aziz said that the development of the social sector of the country was the priority of the government. | 0 |
Police Raid Nuclear Plant Offices Dozens of police officers on today raided the offices of Kansai Electric at the site of Japans worst nuclear plant accident as part of a criminal investigation into the tragedy that killed five people last month, an official said. | 0 |
EU proposes changes to Stability Pact The European Commission yesterday presented a proposed revision of the Stability and Growth Pact, the rules that underpin the euro. | 2 |
Hoosiers decode messages from Mars be the first on your block to decode a secret message to Mars and win a toy Lego model! But this was NASA speaking, in conjunction | 3 |
Kahne qualifies in 5th for Nextel Cup event The Evernham Motorsports driver was fifth in qualifying for tomorrow #39;s Pop Secret 500, a NASCAR Nextel Cup Series race. Kahne was third in qualifying for today #39;s Target House 300, a Busch Series race. | 1 |
QRS Spurns JDA, Chooses Inovis QRS received five unsolicited offers throughout the summer, one from a shareholder of the company. But Inovis won the deal with a \$7-per-share offer. | 2 |
Bosox pull within 21/2 It took the Red Sox 19 days to slash eight games off New York #39;s AL East lead. And they #39;re not done yet. quot;We #39;re just going to take care of what we can take care of, quot; reliever Mike | 1 |
South Korea to explain uranium experiments at IAEA meetings this <b>...</b> SEOUL - South Korean officials will meet with the UN nuclear watchdog this month to explain about controversial uranium enrichment tests conducted four years ago, Foreign Minister Ban Ki-Moon said on Saturday. | 0 |
India, Pakistan prepare for talks NEW DELHI: India and Pakistan on Saturday began talks to prepare the ground for two days of ministerial dialogue from Sunday aimed at normalising ties between the two nuclear-armed rivals. | 0 |
India, Pakistan Leaders Begin Peace Talks (AP) AP - Foreign secretaries from nuclear rivals India and Pakistan began a new round of peace talks Saturday on a series of festering issues, including their decades-old dispute over the Himalayan region of Kashmir. | 0 |
Football: England start campaign England boss Sven-Goran Eriksson says a decent start to the World Cup qualifying campaign is vital. | 0 |
Putin Orders Crackdown After School Siege President Vladimir Putin ordered a crackdown in southern Russia after a school siege killed at least 250, and warned Chechen sympathisers on Saturday they would be seen as "accomplices of terrorism." | 0 |
Pay music services have limits Consumers may not be getting what they think when they pay to download music. After years of resisting the inevitable, the music industry has responded to the music download phenomenon by offering music in digital formats through online stores. | 3 |
Russian, US astronauts leave ISS on maintenance mission The Russian-US crew of the International Space Station (ISS) went on a five-hour space walk overnight to carry out maintenance work, Russian space officials said on Saturday, quoted by ITAR-TASS news agency. | 3 |
Astronomers discover first Neptune-sized planets outside our solar <b>...</b> A team of astronomers announced last week the discovery of some of the smallest planets yet detected beyond our solar system. The two newly discovered planets represent a new class of extrasolar planets, and | 3 |
Popular spam fighter #39;s effectiveness questioned A technological weapon against unwanted #39; #39;spam quot; e-mails that has been embraced by leading Internet companies doesn #39;t work as well as its developers had hoped, according to a new study. | 3 |
Tech: Back to Earth with a Thud In the middle of the Sept. 3 tech wreck on Wall Street, there was at least one upside to chip giant Intel #39;s (INTC ) lowering of expectations for the current quarter: It made it easier for other tech companies | 3 |
Chip Maker SMIC Boosts Capacity and Profits Chip maker SMIC experienced healthy growth quot;primarily due to our increase in capacity and increased demands of our customers for wafers, quot; said company chairman Richard Chang. | 3 |
Roddick, Hewitt through to US Open third round Defending champion Andy Roddick of the United States stormed into the third round of the 17.8 million US dollars US Open Friday. The American big-server blasted 10 aces enroute | 1 |
Kim increases lead at State Farm Classic Springfield, Illinois - Christina Kim followed up her career best round with a six-under 66 here on Friday to increase her lead to four strokes in the \$1,2-million (about R8-million) State Farm Classic. | 1 |
Solberg quickest at Rally of Japan TOKYO, Japan -- World champion Petter Solberg dominated the second day of the Rally of Japan, winning six of Saturday #39;s nine special stages and opening up a one minute and eight second lead. | 1 |
Pedro powers by Rangers They #39;re in the midst of one of the most relentless marches in their modern history, a 10-game winning streak that has them climbing up the backs of the New York Yankees and leaving their wild card rivals behind. | 1 |
Brown loses by TKO In the course of his first year in pinstripes, Kevin Brown has endured a two-month bout with an intestinal parasite and had two cortisone shots for lower back pain. | 1 |
Giambi, Yanks won #39;t discuss published report Jason Giambi stepped out of his black convertible with the California plates outside Yankee Stadium on Friday evening and was met by a Yankees security official. | 1 |
Lebanon Moves to Extend President #39;s Term BEIRUT, Lebanon Sept. 4, 2004 - Lebanese lawmakers amended their constitution to keep pro-Syrian President Emile Lahoud in office, boldly reaffirming their loyalty to Damascus and defying a UN resolution calling for presidential elections. | 0 |
E Guinea investigators to arrive soon On the eve of the arrival of Equatorial Guinea investigators in South Africa, authorities in Malabo have said that the trial of eight South African alleged mercenaries could drag on for a considerable time. | 0 |
Schroeder meeting with Gaddafi announced after deal German Chancellor Gerhard Schroeder will travel to Tripoli on October 15 for a meeting with Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi, government sources said on Saturday. | 0 |
US, Iraqi forces clash with militants BAGHDAD, Iraq - American and Iraqi troops clashed with insurgents north of Baghdad on Saturday, killing two militants and injuring three Iraqi National Guards, the US military said. | 0 |
Suicide Car Bomb in Iraq #39;s Kirkuk Kills 9 - Police A suicide car bomber detonated his vehicle near a police academy in the Iraqi city of Kirkuk on Saturday, killing at least nine people and wounding 20, police said. | 0 |
US, Iraqi Forces Launch Major Offensive in Northern Iraq, 8 People <b>...</b> US and Iraqi forces have launched a major offensive against a town suspected of harboring insurgents in northern Iraq. At least eight people have been killed and dozens injured in the fighting in Tal Afar Saturday. | 0 |
ET Might Prefer a Letter Description: We check in with the progress of search for extraterrestrial intelligence. A paper published this week in the journal Nature argues that for sending lots of data over long distances, it #39;s hard | 3 |
Briefs Woods shares 1st-round lead at Deutsche Bank NORTON, Mass. - Tiger Woods shot a 6-under 65 at the Deutsch Bank Championship to tie for the lead with Ryan Palmer, one stroke ahead of Mark OMeara and two others. | 1 |
Progress With Pakistan #39;not Insignificant #39;: Indian PM NEW DELHI, Sept 4 (AFP) - Progress in ongoing peace talks with Pakistan has been quot;not insignificant quot; and the process can be sustained, Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh said Saturday. | 0 |
PluggedIn: 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 |
Blazing U.S. Profit Growth to Cool (Reuters) Reuters - Wall Street investors will get their\first glimpses in September of how companies performed in the\third quarter, and financial experts say don't look for too\many positive earnings surprises. | 2 |
France Hopes Iraq Hostages Will Be Freed Soon (Reuters) Reuters - France said on Saturday it hoped Islamic\militants were about to free two French hostages, but urged\caution as fresh violence erupted in Iraq. | 0 |
Cryonics Facility Must Show Willams Note (AP) AP - An Arizona cryonics facility must show a document to the nephews of the late Ted Williams that could prove the baseball Hall of Famer wanted to be frozen after his death, a judge has ruled. | 1 |
Roddick Keeps Home Flag Flying in New York NEW YORK (Reuters) - Defending champion Andy Roddick kept the home flag flying at the U.S. Open Friday, but it was a bad day for his compatriots as only two American men reached the third round, their worst showing in tournament history. | 1 |
Spacewalking Astronauts Install Antennas (AP) AP - Leaving their orbiting outpost unmanned, the international space station's two astronauts floated outside on a spacewalk Friday and plugged in new antennas and replaced a worn-out piece of cooling equipment. | 3 |
Company Making Fake Urine for Researchers (AP) AP - In Kevin Dyches' mind, the future is yellow. Dyna-Tek Industries, a company Kevin and his wife, Sandra, bought five years ago, has developed synthetic urine for the research industry. | 3 |
L.A. Development Unearths Indian Cemetery (AP) AP - It was inevitable that crews building a massive housing development near west Los Angeles wetlands would unearth American Indian remains. | 3 |
Tech, Oil and Frances to Rule Markets NEW YORK (Reuters) - As if Intel's profit bomb didn't put enough of a damper on the summer-ending long weekend, investors returning next week after Labor Day will be wary of a market offering as much pitfall as promise. | 2 |
Biophysicist William Siri Dies at 85 (AP) AP - William Siri, a biophysicist at the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory who helped lead the first American expedition to reach Mount Everest's summit, has died at age 85. | 3 |
Russia School Death Toll Includes 155 Children BESLAN, Russia (Reuters) - At least 322 people, almost half of them children, died in the bloodbath that ended a school siege by Chechen separatists in southern Russia, a senior justice official said on Saturday. | 0 |
Employees Face More Benefit Choices WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Within the next few weeks, workers are likely to find a little something extra in their paychecks. No, sorry ... it's not money. Those fat envelopes will be stuffed with the paperwork that goes with new benefit plans. | 2 |
India, Pakistan Agree to Deepen Peace Process NEW DELHI (Reuters) - India and Pakistan agreed on Saturday to "deepen and broaden" a peace process that in recent months has appeared to stall over their half-century dispute over the Kashmir region. | 0 |
Suicide Car Bomb in Iraq's Kirkuk Kills 17 - Police KIRKUK, Iraq (Reuters) - A suicide car bomber detonated his vehicle near a police academy in the Iraqi city of Kirkuk on Saturday, killing at least 17 people and wounding 32, police said. | 0 |
Away on Business: Islands of Refuge CHICAGO (Reuters) - Today's highly stressed business travelers may need islands of respite to restore the spirit and calm the tensions that build with security checks, crowded flights and navigating a car in unfamiliar territory. | 2 |
Clashes Kill 11 in Iraq, U.S. Copter Forced to Land MOSUL, Iraq (Reuters) - U.S.-led forces backed by warplanes battled insurgents in northern Iraq on Saturday, killing at least 11 people and wounding 52 others, the U.S. military and Iraqi doctors said. | 0 |
France Hopes Iraq Hostages Will Be Freed Soon PARIS (Reuters) - France said on Saturday it hoped Islamic militants were about to free two French hostages, but urged caution as fresh violence erupted in Iraq. | 0 |
Japan Princess Breaks Seclusion, Visits Emperor TOKYO (Reuters) - Japan's Crown Princess Masako emerged briefly on Saturday from months of seclusion to visit the emperor, but officials said it might be difficult for her to resume her official duties this year. | 0 |
Woods right on course There have been signs of danger he has read about, warnings of trouble told to him. | 1 |
Falling out of range While the Red Sox celebrated their 10th straight victory and picked up another game on that team from New York, the Texas Rangers, following last night's 2-0 loss at Fenway Park, were left to wonder where their season is going. | 1 |
System proving a hit The purists went berserk back in 1993. They hated the idea. The wild card was bad for baseball. Just wait and see. | 1 |
Is Giambi tumor in pituitary? Yankees slugger Jason Giambi still wants to keep his medical situation private, even though a newspaper report yesterday detailed the location and treatment of his benign tumor. | 1 |
Decision appealing for Kapler and Nixon Beware, titans of the legal world. There may be a new force in town. quot;I'm going to hire the law firm of Kapler and Nixon, quot; Red Sox general manager Theo Epstein said after outfielders Gabe Kapler and Trot Nixon yesterday won the appeals of their three-game suspensions and \$1,000 fines for their roles in the July 24 bench-clearing incident with ... | 1 |
Rangers steering through recent skid With a little under three hours to go before the first pitch of a crucial series with the Red Sox, the Texas Rangers -- losers of four straight games -- looked anything but concerned about their immediate fate on the diamond. | 1 |
Dolphins weren't all game The Miami Dolphins arrived for their final exhibition game last night in New Orleans short nine players. | 1 |
Bush leads way on campaign trail President Bush says better job figures show his policies are working, as a new opinion poll puts him in the lead. | 0 |
Teams looking for an edge The United States Soccer Federation has struck a profitable vein since it began sending its national teams to the Boston area in 1991. The US men's team has an 11-1-3 record in Norfolk County and even the defeat -- 2-0 to the Netherlands -- prepared the Americans for their greatest series of conquests several days later in the 2002 World ... | 1 |
Bryant case seen as plagued from start EAGLE, Colo. -- The rape case against Kobe Bryant finally fell to pieces shortly after 11 a.m. Wednesday, when his accuser called District Attorney Mark Hurlbert to say she had had enough and would no longer cooperate. The call set in motion a series of events that ended with the charges being thrown out little more than eight hours later. | 1 |
Russian press review Saturday's Russian press is dominated by the bloody hostage drama in North Ossetia .<br><br> | 0 |
Fitzpatrick, Harvard are thinking big Recently named one of 16 quot;players to watch quot; for the 2004 Walter Payton Award, senior quarterback Ryan Fitzpatrick looks to lead the Harvard football team to its first Ivy League title since 2001. | 1 |
US plans new resolution on Darfur The US says it is preparing a new UN resolution to deal with the crisis in the troubled Darfur region of Sudan. | 0 |
Brown forced to play spectator Since taking over as football coach at the University of Massachusetts in the spring, Don Brown has placed his mark on the team he helped lead to the 1998 Division 1-AA national championship as defensive coordinator. Imagine how difficult it will be for the Minutemen to play today's season opener at Delaware State as if their charismatic mentor doesn't exist. | 1 |
O'Meara back in mix with 66 There would be louder noise generated by his neighbor and friend later in the day, but Mark O'Meara wasn't complaining about his quiet stroll along the tree-lined fairways yesterday morning in the first round of the Deutsche Bank Championship. | 1 |
Changes catch players' ayes It's hard to dispute that having Tiger Woods in the lead after yesterday's first round of the Deutsche Bank Championship was good news for tournament organizers. It just may not have been the best news of the day. | 1 |
On pro side, amateur Vana had fun Debbie and Frank Vana Sr. have followed their son over countless fairways in numerous tournaments, but yesterday was something quot;very special. quot; | 1 |
End-of-summer gas prices fall For the hundreds of thousands of New Englanders who will fill up the tank and hit the road this Labor Day weekend, a trip to the gas station is turning out to be a few dollars cheaper than it was on Memorial Day -- even though world oil prices keep climbing. | 2 |
Northeastern Conference BEVERLY Coach: Dan Bauer (second year). Last year's record: 4-7. Returning starters (7): Nate Boynton, OT/DT, 6-3, 290, Sr.; Armando Cuko, kicker/punter, 5-11, 180, Sr.; Justin Fisher, OL/DL, 5-9, 230, Sr.; Dan Abate, WR/DB, 5-8, 165, Sr.; Travis Anderson, WR/DB, 5-8, 175, Sr.; Chris Kruczynski, OL/DL, 6-1, 240, Sr.; Jason Comeau, C/DL, 6-0, 215, Sr. Returning lettermen: Nick Abraham, RB/LB, ... | 1 |
Hockomock League CANTON Coach: Tom Bresnahan (fourth year, 14-16). Last year's record: 7-3. Returning starters (5) : Chris Bell, OT/LB, 6-0, 250, Sr.; Mike Alberts, OL/DL, 5-10, 235, Sr.; Hashim Haneef, TE/DE, 6-2, 200, Sr.; Rob Powell, G/DT, 5-11, 235, Sr; Patrick Murphy, WR/DB, 6-1, 170, Sr. Returning lettermen: Mike Burlingame, QB/S, Sr.; Russell Burrows, G/LB, Jr.; Jacques Faubras, WR/DB, Sr.; Jason ... | 1 |
August jobless rate dips The US unemployment rate fell slightly and 144,000 more people found work in August, providing both the Bush and Kerry campaigns ammunition in their battle for the presidency. | 2 |
Atlantic Coast League DENNIS-YARMOUTH Coach: Paul Funk (third year, 10-13). Last year's record: 5-5. Returning starters (8): Bobby Ewing, WR/S, 5-11, 170, So.; Eric Clifford, G/DE, 5-10, 215, Jr.; Adam Carreiro, T/DT, 6-4, 285, Jr.; Mark Lucier, HB/DB, 5-11, 175, Sr.; Trevor Rose, QB, 5-10, 165, Sr.; Jake St. Peter, FB/LB, 6-1, 215, Sr.; Joe Mochi, HB/LB, 5-10, 190, Sr.; Chris Marsh, G/LB, ... | 1 |
Popular spam fighter's effectiveness questioned A technological weapon against unwanted ''spam quot; e-mails that has been embraced by leading Internet companies doesn't work as well as its developers had hoped, according to a new study. | 2 |
Transactions BASEBALL Boston (AL): Purchased the contract of OF Adam Hyzdu from Pawtucket (IL); claimed INF Tim Hummel off waivers from Cincinnati (NL); designated P Brandon Puffer and INF Andy Dominique for assignment. Chicago (AL): Purchased the contract of P Jeff Bajenaru from Charlotte (IL). Cincinnati (NL): Activated Ps Danny Graves and Mike Matthews; claimed P Juan Padilla off waivers from ... | 1 |
Contractor buys Md. firm Perini Corp. , a Framingham construction company that built one of the largest sections of the Big Dig, has agreed to purchase Cherry Hill Construction Co., a private firm in Jessup, Md., that does public works projects. Most of Perini's revenue comes from construction of gaming and themed-entertainment projects. The company has extensive work in Iraq and Afghanistan, as well. ... | 2 |
NYC tops Boston in convention-related spending NEW YORK -- The city and host committee wanted nothing more than to show they could put on a national political convention better than Boston, and by many measures they did. | 2 |
Wal-Mart may settle immigration case Wal-Mart Stores Inc. , the world's number one retailer, is in talks with the US Attorney for the Middle District of Pennsylvania to settle an investigation into whether it knowingly hired contractors who used illegal immigrants to clean its stores. | 2 |
Hewitt on auto pilot in sweeping past Arazi The planes from nearby LaGuardia have been flying unusually low over the National Tennis Center this week, but nothing has been cruising beneath the radar screen quite like Lleyton Hewitt. | 1 |
These lefties were all right Francesca Schiavone, the daughter of a Milan bus driver, was traveling on foot in Flushing. Fast. Desperately. A yellow tennis ball had risen like the sun over her head -- deftly lobbed by lefthander Angela Haynes -- descending at the baseline, and bounding toward the backstop. | 1 |
Today's schedule Pro baseball: Red Sox vs. Texas at Fenway Park, 1 p.m.; International League: Pawtucket vs. Rochester at McCoy Stadium, Pawtucket, R.I., 6 p.m.; Eastern League: Portland vs. New Hampshire at Hadlock Field, Portland, Maine, 6 p.m.; Atlantic League: Nashua vs. Newark at Holman Stadium, Nashua, 6:30 p.m.; Northeast League: Brockton at Bangor, 6:30 p.m.; Eastern League: Altoona at New Britain, ... | 1 |
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