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Car bomb kills 20 in Kirkuk A suicide attacker yesterday detonated a car bomb outside an Iraqi police academy, killing 20 people and wounding 36 in the latest attack designed to thwart US-backed efforts | 0 |
Massive Hurricane Frances Smothers Florida (Reuters) Reuters - Hurricane Frances smothered eastern\Florida on Sunday with drenching rains and fierce winds that\ripped away roofs, trees and boat moorings and cut power to 1.3\million homes and businesses. | 0 |
Egyptian found dead in northern Iraq (AFP) AFP - The body of an Egyptian was found on a road north of the Iraqi town of Tikrit, police and medical sources said. | 0 |
US employment glass is either half-empty or half-full One, an 80-page tract from the conservative Employment Policy Foundation, paints a Horatio Alger portrait of a nation becoming more competitive globally, thanks in part to small-business growth and a surge in self-employment. | 2 |
Philadelphia joins the list of cities mulling wireless Internet <b>...</b> For about \$10 million, city officials believe they can turn all 135 square miles of Philadelphia into the world #39;s largest wireless Internet hot spot. | 3 |
Appeals court revives Oracle shareholder case While Oracle Corp. awaits a judge #39;s decision on whether it can continue in its quest to acquire PeopleSoft Inc., the company faced a setback in an unrelated case. | 3 |
Kasprowicz causes dilemma AUSTRALIA captain Ricky Ponting says the form of Michael Kasprowicz has left the world champions with a problem to solve ahead of the ICC Champions Trophy, which gets underway in England this week. | 1 |
Sachin Is Finally Out Of Champions Trophy London, Sept. 4 (NNN): Master-blaster Sachin Ramesh Tendulkar was finally ruled out of the International Cricket Council (ICC) Champions Trophy starting here on September 10. | 1 |
One dead after World Cup qualifier One man has died and seven have been injured in clashes between Greek and Albanian fans in Greece following the World Cup qualifier game played between the two countries in Tirana, police say. | 1 |
Kyushu braces for powerful typhoon A large and powerful typhoon that brought heavy rains and strong winds to Okinawa #39;s main island and Amami Islands Sunday is likely to hit Kyushu Tuesday, the Meteorological Agency said. | 0 |
Two Killed, 10 Hurt in Latest Bangladesh Blast Two people were killed and 10 wounded in a bomb blast in Bangladesh #39;s northeastern Sylhet town on Sunday, police said. They said the blast occurred outside a cinema hall in the town, 219 miles from Dhaka. | 0 |
Mid-cap may not be only choice Most experts expect mid-cap #39; #39; stocks, or stocks issued by medium-size companies, to perform well as our economy expands. | 2 |
They like it here -- we knew they would When you #39;re from Boston, you get used to knowing everything about everything, especially sports. It #39;s as simple as that. When the hometown is | 1 |
Bomb explosion near US base A CAR bomb exploded outside an air base used by US forces near Dijiel, about 40km north of Baghdad, the US military and police said. | 0 |
Pope Celebrates Mass Near Hilltop Shrine Pope John Paul II traveled to a hilltop shrine near the Adriatic Sea Sunday to celebrate an open-air Mass attended by tens of thousands of pilgrims. | 0 |
WRAPUP 1-Open-Roddick keeps home flag flying in New York Defending champion Andy Roddick kept the home flag flying at the US Open on Friday, but it was a bad day for his compatriots as only two American men reached the | 1 |
Tamada on pole for Portuguese Grand Prix Japan #39;s Makoto Tamada powered into pole position for Sunday #39;s Portuguese Grand Prix, setting a lap record just before the end of qualifying on Saturday. | 1 |
Foot fault Unranked and 18-point underdogs, Oregon State came into Death Valley and nearly shocked the nation Saturday night. After a 47-minute weather delay, the Beavers outplayed fourth-ranked | 1 |
Pope Celebrates Mass Near Hilltop Shrine A frail Pope John Paul II traveled to a hilltop shrine near the Adriatic Sea on Sunday, putting three more Catholics on the road to sainthood during an open-air Mass attended by some 200,000 pilgrims. | 0 |
Coffee, Tea or Job? For Airline Workers, an Uncertain Future or decades, an airline job was a coveted plum. Good pay, generous benefits, strong unions and the glamour of air travel made pilots, flight attendants, mechanics and even baggage handlers the envy of their neighbors. | 2 |
World Needs More Oil Capacity -Watchdog (Reuters) Reuters - An extra 3 million barrels per day (bpd)\of production capacity worldwide is needed to avoid another\year of blistering oil prices, International Energy Agency\(IEA) executive director Claude Mandil warned on Sunday. | 2 |
ASEAN, Australia, N.Zealand See 2007 Pact (Reuters) Reuters - Southeast Asian nations, Australia and | 2 |
Eurozone data to show growth based on exports, consumption weak (AFP) AFP - Data to be released this week are expected to confirm that the eurozone's economic recovery is fueled by strong export demand, not consumption or investment, and that Britain's industrial sector is gaining steam, analysts said. | 2 |
Hong Kong Democrats in Public Rally Ahead of Polls HONG KONG (Reuters) - Hong Kong's scandal-rocked pro-democracy camp joined hands on Sunday to stage a public rally ahead of crucial legislative elections next weekend, the biggest test of public mood since district elections in November. | 0 |
Strong quake hits western Japan An earthquake with a magnitude of 6.8 shakes western Japan, reportedly making tall buildings sway in Tokyo. | 0 |
Police to question 'suicide pact' girl Police wait to speak to a seriously ill teenager whose friend died after the girls made an apparent suicide pact. | 0 |
Car Bomb Explodes Near U.S. Base in Iraq BAGHDAD, Iraq - A car bomb exploded outside an air base used by U.S. forces near Dijiel, about 25 miles north of Baghdad, the U.S... | 0 |
It Takes Time to Judge the True Impact of New Technology About this time last year, I wrote a column following up on some pieces I'd written earlier to see what if anything new had happened to those topics. The reaction I heard afterwards convinced me that revisiting old news was a worthwhile exercise -- in general, it's too easy for tech reporters to lose sight of how a product works over time in the real world, as opposed to a brief trial in a reviewer's hands. | 3 |
Internet's Speed Increases As It Turns 35 Years Old As the Internet turned 35 last week, Web speed-demons claimed a new record for how fast data can be transmitted over computer networks, announcing they had sent the equivalent of a big fat DVD movie file from Switzerland to California in a few seconds. | 3 |
Mobile Mappers Stop Short of Ideal Thanks to such free mapping sites as MapQuest and Yahoo Maps, it's been a while since road warriors have had to sketch out a route with a yellow highlighter, guessing which shortcuts to take or avoid. Instead, they can just type in start and destination addresses and print out crisply labeled, turn-by-turn directions, with the only cost being some printer ink. | 3 |
Apple, eBay, Intel make waves; what is a nanometer? (SiliconValley.com) SiliconValley.com - Maybe you were out of town last week, or maybe you just weren't paying attention. That's OK. Here's a quick rundown of what you missed, culled from reports by our staff and wire services. | 3 |
Russian School Siege Town Buries First of Its Dead BESLAN, Russia (Reuters) - The sound of weeping mothers who lost their sons and daughters in Russia's school siege drifted out of the homes of Beslan on Sunday as the first burials were held for some of the 338 people killed. | 0 |
Signs of Discord Emerge as Indo-Pak Ministers Meet NEW DELHI (Reuters) - Signs of discord emerged between India and Pakistan as foreign ministers from the nuclear-armed rivals met on Sunday to review and advance a peace process that has faltered recently over Kashmir. | 0 |
Evacuees vow never to return to storm-ravaged towns Get INQ7 breaking news on your Smart mobile phone in the Philippines. Send INQ7 BREAKING to 386. INFANTA, Quezon, Philippines -- Severina Espedero has nothing but the clothes she is wearing. | 0 |
Johnny Depp Says He Actually Enjoys Aging VENICE, Italy - Unlike legions of other Hollywood stars, hipster heartthrob Johnny Depp says he actually enjoys aging. The boyish-looking Depp - who plays the author of "Peter Pan" in his latest picture "Finding Neverland" - was asked if the children's character famed for never growing old made him wish for the same power... | 0 |
Russian Town Mourns As Putin Vows Fight BESLAN, Russia - Wails of mourning echoed through the streets of this southern Russian town on Sunday, and the region's top police officer reportedly resigned in the wake of the school hostage-taking that left more than 380 people dead - nearly half of them children. A shaken President Vladimir Putin went on national television Saturday to make a rare and candid admission of Russian weakness in the face of an "all-out war" by terrorists... | 0 |
Frances Pounds Florida, Weakens Slightly STUART, Fla. - Hurricane Frances weakened slightly but pounded Florida relentlessly with high wind and heavy rain Sunday after it smashed across the state's east coast, knocking out power to 2 million people and forcing residents to withstand a prolonged lashing that shredded roofs and uprooted trees... | 0 |
Business Sentiment Improves for First Time in Four Months The business sentiment index in the domestic economy has finally showed a mild upturn in the last four months. The Federation of Korean Industries (FKI) reported Sunday that, quot;According to a survey conducted | 2 |
Digital Bridges sign major deal with EA DIGITAL Bridges, the mobile phone games company, has acquisitions in its sights after signing an exclusive deal with the worlds biggest computer game publisher. | 3 |
India wins toss, elects to bat India won the toss and elected to bat first in the third one-day international against England in the NatWest Trophy at Lord #39;s today. | 1 |
QB dilemma still haunts Spartans Dale Rogers completed 85.7 percent of his passes, committed no turnovers and was the team #39;s leading rusher. Yet the Spartans still lost by 40 to Stanford. | 1 |
Dogs have their day After toying with Division 1-AA Georgia Southern, the Georgia Bulldogs football team broke open the game with a 28-point third quarter, defeating the Eagles 48-28 in the season opener for both teams Saturday afternoon at Sanford Stadium. | 1 |
Anwar in Munich for treatment Malaysian rebel politician Anwar Ibrahim has arrived in the southern German city of Munich for medical treatment. He arrived at a clinic in Munich under bright blue skies on Sunday | 0 |
For airline employees, it #39;s the end of a golden age For decades, an airline job was a coveted plum. Good pay, generous benefits, strong unions and the glamor of air travel made pilots, flight attendants, mechanics and even baggage handlers the envy of their neighbors. | 2 |
INTERVIEW: IEA Head Renews Call For OPEC Capacity Boost SYDNEY (Dow Jones)--OPEC should reaffirm its willingness to increase oil production when it meets next month and give a clear commitment to boosting production capacity, the head of the International | 2 |
Stanford rolls to 43-3 football win Stanford, Calif.----Stanford took advantage of some size mismatches in the first half and then scored touchdowns on its first three second-half possessions en route to a 43-3 victory over San Jose State in the season-opening football game for both teams. | 1 |
Woodward apologises for criticising clubs Former England coach Clive Woodward has apologised for his stinging comments about owners, directors and coaches at some English clubs. | 1 |
Russia mourns siege victims Mourners were preparing on Sunday for the first funerals of more than 330 hostages killed in Russia #39;s school hostage siege as a top local official reportedly resigned over the crisis. | 0 |
Radical cleric issues fatwa demanding release of French reporters (AFP) AFP - A leading radical Iraqi cleric issued a fatwa (Islamic decree) demanding the immediate release of two French reporters held hostage for more than two weeks. | 0 |
Hurricane losses may reach \$10bn Hurricane Frances could cause between \$2bn and \$10bn in insured losses in the US, experts predict as the storm pummels Florida. | 2 |
Blair - Wembley key to 2012 Tony Blair says the completion of Wembley will boost London's hopes of staging the 2012 Olympics. | 1 |
What the Scottish Sunday papers say The Sunday Mail leads with the news that the official death toll from the Russian school siege in Beslan has risen to 348. The Sunday Post claims the figure could reach 400 and reports on Vladimir Putin #39;s | 3 |
Rep Ireland 3, Cyprus 0 and then dedicated his feat to the memory of his late father. Keane scored the third goal in Ireland #39;s 3-0 victory over Cyprus as manager Brian | 1 |
Iraqi Government Bans Al-Jazeera quot;Indefinitely quot; BAGHDAD, Sept 5 (IslamOnline.net amp; News Agencies) - The US-allied Iraqi government has extended the closure of Al-Jazeera offices in Iraq indefinitely, not only provoking the outrage of the Qatar-based network and media watchdogs, but also casting deep | 0 |
Pope Prays for Beslan School Dead at Italy Mass Pope John Paul prayed for the victims of the quot;inhumane violence quot; of Russia #39;s Beslan school tragedy as he said Mass on Sunday before 200,000 people in central Italy. | 0 |
Two Killed, 10 Hurt in Latest Bangladesh Blast Two people were killed and 10 wounded in a bomb blast in northeastern Bangladesh on Sunday, in the latest of a series of attacks that have killed at least 107 people in the country since 2000, police said. | 0 |
Actors hit Venice despite protest Actors Al Pacino, Kate Winslet and Johnny Depp attend the Venice Film Festival despite protests. | 0 |
AMD Tweaks Intel with PR Coup In a move as predictable as the sun rising in the east, AMD drew a PR bead on Intel last week and managed to get a small bottle of ink spilled over how it had showed off a dual-core x86 90nm Opteron at its facilities in Austin, Texas on Tuesday. | 3 |
Cazenove Shareholders to Meet as Company Weighs Possible Offers Cazenove Group Plc, Britain #39;s oldest independent stockbroker, will hold its annual shareholder meeting Tuesday after the Financial Times reported it #39;s weighing offers from two US banks. | 2 |
No Strawberries and Cream: Sharapova Ousted by Pierce Maria Sharapova suffered a harsh introduction Saturday to the expectations that will stalk her for the rest of her career. After a third-round loss at the US | 1 |
England held by Austria, Greece stunned in Albania England #39;s World Cup qualifying campaign got off to a miserable start yesterday when it squandered a two-goal lead to draw 2-2 with Austria in Group Six. | 1 |
PREVIEW-Open-Roddick and Williams to star on Sunday The first week of the US Open concludes on Sunday with Andy Roddick and Serena Williams the star attractions at Flushing Meadows. While many New Yorkers head out | 1 |
It #39;s over for DLS gridmen The longest winning streak in high school football history came to a crushing end late Saturday night. De La Salle High School, which had fashioned 12 consecutive undefeated | 1 |
Turkish company announces it is withdrawing from Iraq to save <b>...</b> A Turkish company said Sunday it was withdrawing from Iraq a day after Iraqi militants threatened to behead its employee unless it ceased operations in the country, the Anatolia news agency reported. | 0 |
Iraq's Survival Still at Stake, Report Warns (Reuters) Reuters - Iraq could splinter into civil war and\destabilize the whole region if the interim government, U.S.\forces and United Nations fail to hold the ring among factions\struggling for power, according to a British thinktank. | 0 |
To get or not to get Windows XP Service Pack 2? That is the <b>...</b> The talk in the computer world seems to be whether or not to get Microsoft #39;s Windows XP Service Pack 2. Both sides of the argument offer pros and cons as to whether or not computer users should proceed with this upgrade. | 3 |
Talk Now Mark II limps out JUST HOW MANY times can you #39;soft launch #39; a product? Well, Orange has already launched Talk Now - its Push-to-Talk (PTT) service -wice this year. | 3 |
Honda/IBM improve speech-recognition system Honda Motor Co., with software help from IBM, is preparing to introduce an improved speech-recognition system as standard equipment on the 2005 Acura RL sedan. | 3 |
Aliens Attempting To Contact Earth? Are extraterrestrials attempting to contact earth? The thought that ET may be sending out radio signals from somewhere in outer space is creating a buzz and astronomers involved in the search for extraterrestrial | 3 |
Update 1: Red Hat Hires New CFO From Burlington Red Hat Inc. hired a new chief financial officer as it tries to bolster its sagging stock price and expand into new foreign markets. | 3 |
EA to boost mobile-phone games Gaming giant Electronic Arts will boost production of video games for mobile phones over the next nine months, bringing top-selling franchises quot;Fifa Football quot; and quot;The Sims quot; to handsets, the company says. | 3 |
Interstellar mail service: It #39;s slow, but no static NEW YORK Ever since 1960, when a Cornell University astronomer named Frank Drake pointed a radio telescope at a pair of nearby stars on the chance that he might hear a quot;howdy quot; from extraterrestrial beings, astronomers have persevered in the notion that | 3 |
Donald wins European Masters European Ryder Cup player Luke Donald shot a 5-under-par 66 Sunday to win the European Masters by five strokes for his second European tour victory. | 1 |
Tendulkar loss #39;no excuse #39; Indian great Sunil Gavaskar says Sachin Tendulkar #39;s injury-enforced absence cannot excuse the side #39;s poor batting performances in England. | 1 |
Rossi rushing towards world title Italy #39;s Valentino Rossi, riding a Yamaha, won the Portuguese MotoGP race for the fourth year in a row to close on the world championship crown. | 1 |
First-night nerves for England, France England and France opened their 2006 World Cup campaigns with frustrating draws while European champion Greece crashed back to earth with an embarrassing defeat in Albania. | 1 |
New York Yankees Team Report - September 5 (Sports Network) - The Yankees will try to get back on the winning track this afternoon, when they try to avoid a three-game sweep at the hands of the Baltimore Orioles at Yankee Stadium. | 1 |
No longer feared by rivals, Serena just sheep in wolf #39;s clothing MUCH of the New York mentality these days is governed by what is said on late-night television talk shows. So when one particular inquisitor asked Maria Sharapova to explain how she was able to dismantle such | 1 |
Former Saddam Deputy Arrested in Iraq Iraqi forces Sunday captured Izzat Ibrahim al-Douri, the most wanted member of Saddam Hussein #39;s ousted dictatorship, Iraq #39;s top information official told The Associated Press. | 0 |
Russian Town Mourns As Putin Vows Fight BESLAN, Russia Sept. 5, 2004 - Wails of mourning echoed through the streets of this southern Russian town on Sunday, and the region #39;s top police officer reportedly resigned in the wake of the school hostage | 0 |
Violence Displaces Over 3,000 More in Darfur-UN More than 3,000 people have been displaced since the end of August by violence in an area of North Darfur state in the troubled western region of Sudan, a United Nations report said on Sunday. | 0 |
Second Strong Quake Hits West Japan, Tsunami Warning A second strong earthquake measuring 7.3 on the open-ended Richter scale hit western Japan on Sunday evening, just hours after the region was rocked by a similarly intense quake, public broadcaster NHK said. | 0 |
Labor win fine: retailer Business feared the Labor Party in government because of its links with unions, Harvey Norman chief executive Gerry Harvey said. But Mr Harvey also said that having the Coalition or Labor in government made little difference to the economy. | 0 |
Two Killed, 10 Hurt in Latest Bangladesh Blast Two people were killed and 10 wounded in a bomb blast in northeastern Bangladesh on Sunday, in the latest of a series of attacks that have killed more than 100 people in the past four years, police said. | 0 |
Falling Dow hits markets SHARES are set for a bumpy ride after Wall Street lost ground on the weekend, derailed by weak US jobs data and a poor prognosis from Intel which sparked worries for the health of the tech sector. | 2 |
HBOS to decide this week on Abbey The board of HBOS is due to decide this week whether to bid against Spanish bank Santander for local rival Abbey National, newspapers say, but HBOS declined to comment. | 2 |
Calpine betting state needs juice Tucked against a dry San Jose hillside, Calpine Corp. #39;s next power plant is a \$500 million leap of faith. Workers swarm through the plant #39;s five-story metal skeleton, the shriek of power tools piercing the air, as they work for completion next spring. | 2 |
HP, Sun Lead in Worldwide Storage Systems Both HP and Sun claimed they were the worldwide leader in storage systems. Sun Microsystems announced that its Network Storage division took the leading position in UNIX disk storage systems factory revenue | 3 |
Yankees: Brown #39;s fire sometimes burns a little too hot The flushed toilet turned the already hot water into a scalding stream from the shower nozzle. Kevin Brown bellowed, then stormed out of the stall, picked up a baseball | 1 |
Saddam trial to begin before January election: Iraqi minister The trial of ousted Iraqi President Saddam Hussein and his cronies, including number two Izzat Ibrahim al-Duri whose arrest was announced on Sunday, will begin before elections due in January, an Iraqi minister said. | 0 |
SMIC establishes first 12-inch chip production line in mainland Semiconductor Manufacturing International Corp, or SMIC, has established a 12-inch chip production line in Beijing, the first of its kind on the Chinese mainland. | 3 |
Philly Considers Wireless Internet For All Sep. 02, 2004. Forget finding an Internet cafe. For less than what it costs to build a small library, city officials believe they can turn all 135 square miles of Philadelphia into the world #39;s largest wireless Internet hot spot. | 3 |
Solberg takes inaugural Rally Japan Motorsport.com. Petter Solberg claimed a comfortable victory on Rally Japan, keeping his WRC championship hopes alive, and giving a home-soil victory to the Subaru team. | 1 |
NCAA Football: LSU Tigers Edge out Oregon State Beavers 22-21 US college football #39;s fourth-ranked Louisiana State University Tigers eked out a 22-21 overtime victory over the unranked Oregon State Beavers late Saturday on the first full day of action. | 1 |
Checking out or whatever amount for which it is written. Under the Check Clearing for the 21st Century Act, commonly known | 2 |
Funds: Fund Mergers Can Hurt Investors (Reuters) Reuters - Mergers and acquisitions have\played an enormous role in the U.S. economy during the past\several decades, but sometimes the results have been bad for\consumers. Similarly, consolidation in the mutual fund\business has sometimes hurt fund investors. | 2 |
Newbiz: an Unconventional Asset-The Past (Reuters) Reuters - When businesses consider their\assets, they may look at obvious things like products,\buildings, equipment, patents, even valued employees. But the\company's history? | 2 |
Greek, Albanian Fans Clash After Match (AP) AP - Greek and Albanian soccer fans fought across the country, and Athens police fired tear gas to disperse crowds following a loss by European champion Greece in a World Cup qualifier. | 1 |
Univision Movil Bows with Bilingual Downloads (Reuters) Reuters - AG Interactive and Univision\Communications launched Univision Movil Sept. 1. The new brand\provides bilingual wireless downloads. | 3 |
Greenspan Takes Center Stage This Week LONDON (Reuters) - Federal Reserve Chairman Alan Greenspan's testimony on Capitol Hill midweek will be the main draw for global financial markets this week in the absence of significant data either side of the Atlantic, analysts said. | 2 |
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