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SI.com DETROIT (Ticker) -- A rocky first inning was too much for Denny Bautista to overcome in his first major league start. Craig Monroe had an RBI single in a three-run first inning and added a solo homer off Bautista | 1 |
Braves 3, Phillies 1 Replacement starter Travis Smith pitched five solid innings, Andruw Jones homered again and the Atlanta Braves buried Philadelphia a little deeper in the NL East, beating the Phillies 3-1 on Monday. | 1 |
Hockey: Finland Squeeze by Spirited Germany 2-1 A late goal by Mikko Eloranta helped Finland scrape past Germany 2-1 Monday in their World Cup Ice hockey quarter-final, sending the Finns to the semi-finals in North America later this week. | 1 |
Russia, Israel Agree on Anti-Terror Union Russia #39;s foreign minister welcomed Israel #39;s offer of help in combating militant groups on Monday, saying Russia needs to be more effective in fighting terror after last week #39;s deadly hostage school standoff. | 0 |
Finland escapes with quarter-final win CBC SPORTS ONLINE - Mikko Eloranta #39;s goal late in the third period helped Finland prevent an embarrassing quarter-final loss to Germany in World Cup play in Helsinki on Monday. | 1 |
Button confident of Williams move Motorsport.com. The Jenson Button/BAR/Williams saga is still rolling on and Williams has now lodged its contract with Button with the Contract Recognition Board (CRB) in regard to the 2005 season and beyond. | 1 |
African Union to hoist 'Help Wanted' sign at poverty summit (AFP) AFP - How to create sustainable employment for impoverished, mostly illiterate African populations residing primarily in rural areas is the challenge the African Union aims to tackle at a summit opening Wednesday in Burkina Faso. | 0 |
Group plans repeat of Kon-Tiki voyage OSLO: Nearly 60 years after Norwegian adventurer Thor Heyerdahl and five others crossed the Pacific on their Kon-Tiki raft, six men will attempt to redo the feat next year, the head of the expedition said on Monday. | 3 |
Maths breakthrough for reclusive Russian? Exeter - A reclusive Russian may have solved one of the world #39;s toughest mathematics problems and stands to win \$1-million (almost R7-million) - but he doesn #39;t appear to care. | 3 |
Microsoft says Linux may mean price cuts Microsoft has filed a report with the US Securities and Exchange Commission warning that 2005 could be challenging, as Linux continues to steal business and PC sales remain sluggish. | 3 |
Where #39;s the Music? All Nick Freer wants is his digital music, and he #39;s even willing to pay for it. When the Hong Kong-based client-services director bought an iPod, it came with software to link with iTunes, Apple Computer #39;s | 3 |
Tigers 7, Royals 3 Craig Monroe homered and Omar Infante drove in three runs to back Wil Ledezma #39;s six strong innings in the Detroit Tigers #39; 7-3 victory over the Kansas City Royals on Monday. | 1 |
Russia #39;s Grief, Putin #39;s Solutions The many atrocities they experienced during the Soviet era of the 20th century did not prepare Russians for last Friday #39;s tragic loss of hundreds of schoolchildren and others during a hostage-taking. | 0 |
Sudan Talks in Nigeria Said Deadlocked After two weeks of talks to end the crisis in Sudan #39;s Darfur region, government and rebel negotiators remain far apart on key security issues, including disarming warring factions, rebels and diplomats said on Monday. | 0 |
Giants Starting Over With New Coach (AP) AP - Tom Coughlin's first season with the New York Giants might be very similar to his start with the expansion Jacksonville Jaguars. | 1 |
China Vows Tougher Penalties for Web Porn (AP) AP - Chinese makers and distributors of pornographic materials sent through the Internet, mobile phones and other communication devices will face penalties as severe as life in prison under new rules that take effect Monday. | 3 |
Finland Beats Germany 2-1 in Cup Play (AP) AP - Mikko Eloranta tipped a shot past Olaf Kolzig with 3:22 left, lifting Finland to a 2-1 win over Germany on Monday and into semifinals of the World Cup of Hockey. | 1 |
Agassi Sets Up Federer Showdown at U.S. Open NEW YORK (Reuters) - Sixth seed Andre Agassi set up a mouthwatering quarter-final showdown with world number one Roger Federer following a 6-3, 6-2, 6-2 win over Armenia's Sargis Sargsian at the U.S. Open Monday. | 1 |
Henman in Quarters as Kiefer Retires NEW YORK (Reuters) - Tim Henman reached his first U.S. Open quarter-final Monday when German opponent Nicolas Kiefer retired in the fifth set of their fourth round match. | 1 |
A Look at Presidential Polls (AP) AP - Results of recent polls on the presidential race. Listed above each set of results is the name of the organization that conducted the poll, the dates, the number interviewed, whether it was adults, registered voters (RV) or likely voters (LV) and the margin of error (MoE). Results might not total 100 percent because of rounding. | 0 |
Israeli Tanks Shell Gaza Town-Palestinian Sources GAZA (Reuters) - Israeli tanks battling Palestinian gunmen shelled a town in the central Gaza Strip early on Tuesday, Palestinian security sources said. | 0 |
U.S. Tanks Pound Rebel-Held Iraqi Town - Witnesses FALLUJA, Iraq (Reuters) - U.S. tanks pounded targets in the rebel-held Sunni Muslim town of Falluja west of Baghdad on Tuesday and U.S. warplanes could be seen flying overhead, witnesses said. | 0 |
Al Qaeda among the Chechens As Russians bury their dead, officials look at terrorist links to Chechen rebels. | 0 |
Russian school siege: A survivor's tale One rescued hostage details what happened during the 53-hour ordeal. | 0 |
Tennis: Agassi rolls on American Andre Agassi defeats Sargis Sargisan to reach the quarter-finals of the US Open. | 0 |
Maradona 'can be treated abroad' Former football star Diego Maradona can return to Cuba for drug rehabilitation, his lawyer says. | 0 |
Kerry Slams 'Wrong War in the Wrong Place' WASHINGTON - Democrat John Kerry accused President Bush on Monday of sending U.S. troops to the "wrong war in the wrong place at the wrong time" and said he'd try to bring them all home in four years... | 0 |
Clinton Has Successful Quadruple Bypass NEW YORK - Bill Clinton underwent a successful quadruple heart bypass operation Monday to relieve severely clogged arteries that had put the former president at high risk of suffering a heart attack. "He is recovering normally at this point," said Dr... | 0 |
CBA poised to move into China THE Commonwealth Bank is set to become the first Australian financial institution to enter mainland China #39;s commercial and retail banking sector. | 2 |
Kon Tiki Returns To The Sea Nearly 60 years after Thor Heyerdahl sailed his Kon-Tiki balsa raft across the Pacific to prove a theory about ancient mariners, a team that includes his grandson plans to recreate the 101-day epic voyage - although the craft will have solar panels | 3 |
Reclusive Russian May Have Made Maths Breakthrough A reclusive Russian may have solved one of the world #39;s toughest mathematics problems and stands to win \$1 million -- but he doesn #39;t appear to care. | 3 |
Spyware interferes with Microsoft patch Though Microsoft Corp. #39;s new security update package is all about protecting systems from worms, viruses and spyware, it can #39;t do much about what #39;s already on computers -- and that could pose a problem. | 3 |
China may stage part of Olympics in Hong Kong CHINA intends to make Olympic history by staging part of the 2008 Beijing Games outside its own territory. Top officials have suggested sending Olympians three hours by plane from the Olympic village on the | 1 |
Stripped down Longhorn still offers gems Although Microsoft's Longhorn has been stripped of its unified file system and some other key technologies, the company said the next Windows release will still be worth the upgrade. | 3 |
Oracle apps upgrade to ship within 60 days Oracle customers will be able to get the delayed version of the company's E-Business Suite 11i.10 within 60 days, Oracle announced today. | 3 |
SI.com HOUSTON (Ticker) -- For the second time in a week, Brandon Backe dominated the Cincinnati Reds . Backe threw seven strong innings to propel the Houston Astros to their 10th consecutive win, an 11-5 victory over the Reds. | 1 |
White Sox 7, Rangers 4 Carl Everett homered and the Chicago White Sox took advantage of Texas #39; season-high five errors in a 7-4 victory over the fading Rangers on Monday. | 1 |
Major League Baseball News Although Travis Smith spent most of this season in the International League, the Phillies didn #39;t need a scouting report on him. | 1 |
U.S. Tanks Pound Rebel-Held Iraqi Town - Witnesses (Reuters) Reuters - U.S. tanks pounded targets in the\rebel-held Sunni Muslim town of Falluja west of Baghdad on\Tuesday and U.S. warplanes could be seen flying overhead,\witnesses said. | 0 |
Mexico Journalists Want More Security After Murders (Reuters) Reuters - More than 200 Mexican journalists\sent an urgent letter to President Vicente Fox on Monday\demanding better security after three journalists were murdered\this year, the latest one last week. | 0 |
Air Liquide Profit Up Nearly 10 Percent (AP) AP - Industrial gas supplier Air Liquide SA said Monday its net profit rose nearly 10 percent in the first half of the year as industrial gas markets recovered in North America and remained strong in Asia. | 0 |
Gun battle erupts in Gaza Strip Israeli forces and Palestinian militants trade gunfire in the Gaza Strip after an Israeli tank is hit by a Hamas bomb. | 0 |
Unseeded Asagoe Reaches Last Eight NEW YORK (Reuters) - Shinobu Asagoe, the last unseeded player left in the women's singles, reached her first grand slam quarter-final with a 7-6, 4-6, 6-3 win over Greece's Eleni Daniilidou at the U.S. Open Monday. | 1 |
Federer and Henman Advance at U.S. Open Top-seeded Roger Federer made it to the U.S. Open quarterfinals when Andrei Pavel pulled out with a herniated disc in his lower back. Tim Henman also advanced today. | 1 |
Colombia arrests paramilitaries Colombia arrests a series of right-wing paramilitaries as the peace process enters a delicate phase. | 0 |
India, Pak talk cooperation in hydrocarbons NEW DELHI, SEPTEMBER 6: India and Pakistan on Monday discussed possible areas of bilateral cooperation in the hydrocarbon sector, including laying a pipeline from Jalandhar to Lahore to export diesel and Indian firms assisting Pakistan in setting up CNG | 2 |
Oil eases as Brent price falls to \$41 a barrel LONDON SEPTEMBER 6: Oil prices eased on Monday as speculative funds continued to take profits but a tight global supply picture stopped the selling from gaining much momentum. | 2 |
Hutchison unit begins \$1.5 bn IPO marketing HONG KONG, SEPTEMBER 6: Hutchison Telecommunications International Ltd (HTIL), a unit of conglomerate Hutchison Whampoa Ltd, on Monday began marketing its IPO worth \$1. | 2 |
Agassi, Federer, Move Into Quarterfinals at US Open (Update1) Two-time champion Andre Agassi beat Armenia #39;s Sargis Sargsian to advance at the US Open and set up a quarterfinal meeting with men #39;s top seed Roger Federer, who reached the round after his opponent withdrew with an injury. | 1 |
Sports: Astros 11 Reds 5 HOUSTON Houston pitcher Brandon Backe used his arm and his bat to lead the Astros past Cincinnati 11-to-5. Backe allowed one run in seven innings while on the mound and belted a two-run homer, his first in the majors. | 1 |
Pace finally signs, practices with Rams St. Louis, MO (Sports Network) - Offensive tackle Orlando Pace ended his holdout by signing a one-year, \$7.02 million contract with the St. | 1 |
Compete against your friends, SI experts and celebrities in this <b>...</b> Fans and pundits who are picking Philadelphia as a Super Bowl contender may want to consider this: the Eagles are one Brian Westbrook injury away from starting Reno Mahe at running back. | 1 |
Roadmap despite the K-roadblock NEW DELHI, SEPTEMBER 6: India and Pakistan today committed themselves to a slow but sustained process to keep the dialogue going, in which New Delhi for the first time accepted the viability of an overland gas pipeline through Pakistan, and Islamabad | 0 |
Roundup: Abuja talks, winding road for peace in Darfur LAGOS, Sept. 6 (Xinhuanetby Dai Adi, Lin Xiaochun) -- The road to sustainable peace in war-ravaged Darfur region, western Sudan, might be a long and tortuous one as the on-going African Union (AU)-sponsored | 0 |
Cambodian Senate OKs WTO Entry (AP) AP - Cambodia moved closer to joining the World Trade Organization on Monday when its Senate approved its entry, a move the government hopes will help protect its billion-dollar garment industry. | 0 |
Bush, Kerry Take on Economy, Iraq in Labor Day Rallies (Reuters) Reuters - Democratic\presidential nominee John Kerry, fresh from a campaign revamp\and slipping in the polls, tried to focus on the economy on\Monday but instead offered new criticism of the Iraq war, while\President Bush touted his tax reform. | 0 |
Devil Rays Can't Get to New York in Time for Afternoon Game Hurricane Frances caused an afternoon doubleheader between the Devil Rays and Yankees to become a single night game. | 1 |
Barbados, East Caribbean Brace for Hurricane Ivan BRIDGETOWN, Barbados (Reuters) - Stores and schools closed, radio stations broadcast warnings and Barbadians readied their homes as Hurricane Ivan charged across the Atlantic on Monday toward Barbados and the Caribbean's eastern islands. | 0 |
Singh Takes Over Golf's No. 1 Ranking Vijay Singh won the Deutsche Bank Championship to knock Tiger Woods from No. 1 in the world golf rankings after a record 264 consecutive weeks. | 0 |
Yukos Lawyer #39;s Flat, Office Searched Prosecutors searched the office and apartment of Yukos #39; chief lawyer, Dmitry Gololobov, on Monday and summoned him for questioning, Yukos spokesman Alexander Shadrin said. | 2 |
ESPN STAR challenges BCCI telecast decision in HC New Delhi, Sep 7. (UNI): After losing out in the high-stake telecasting rights battle on Sunday, ESPN STAR Sports on Monday said it had challenged in the Bombay High Court the decision of the Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) to award | 1 |
France skeptical of new conditions for release of hostages PARIS : The captors of two French journalists allegedly put forward new demands for their release, but French officials cast doubt on the authenticity of the demands and remained cautiously optimistic about securing their release. | 0 |
Israeli Counterterror Help Welcomed Visiting Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov on Monday welcomed an offer from Israel to help in combating militant groups, but said any counterterrorism alliance would not be exclusive and would have to include Arab countries. | 0 |
India offers diesel sale to Pakistan NEW DELHI: Oil ministers of India and Pakistan will hold talks on plans for a gas pipeline from Iran to India and New Delhi #39;s proposal to sell diesel to Pakistan. | 2 |
Oil: Price eases as Saudi offers big discounts LONDON - Oil prices eased on Monday as top world exporter Saudi Arabia slashed prices for its westbound crude sales in an effort to shift the large volumes it is offering to cool world markets. | 2 |
Federer next for Agassi SIXTH seed Andre Agassi defeated Armenia #39;s Sargis Sargsian 6-3 6-2 6-2 in the fourth round of the US Open today. Agassi advances to the quarter-finals to face well-rested top seed Roger Federer, of Switzerland, who won today in a walkover. | 1 |
Sports: White Sox 7 Rangers 4 ARLINGTON, Texas The Texas Rangers made five errors in a 7-to-4 loss to the Chicago White Sox. Carl Everett homered for the Sox, who won their fourth straight. | 1 |
Revenge takes root in the ashes BESLAN: On the charred planks of the gymnasium of School Number One, amid soot-covered children #39;s sneakers and shell casings, Beslan #39;s aggrieved citizens debated fighting back. | 0 |
Ministers quit in president row FOUR Lebanese ministers have quit the Government in protest at a Syrian-inspired constitutional amendment to keep its protege President Emile Lahoud in power for another three years. | 0 |
Traffic management shifting lanes The application traffic management space is getting resurfaced as vendors such as F5, Radware, and Redline green-light new products with traffic compression, DoS attack protection, server-side caching, and other features aimed at simplifying and lowering the cost of network management. | 3 |
Update 4: Alitalia Reportedly to Cut 5,000 Jobs Its future at stake, Italy #39;s flagship air carrier Alitalia said Monday it plans to cut 5,000 jobs - almost a fourth of its workforce - as part of restructuring efforts aimed at averting collapse. | 2 |
VIEW: Will the EU keep faith with Turkey? Martti Ahtisaari and <b>...</b> It is feared that Islamists may one day turn Turkey into a fundamentalist state. Unlikely as it may be in view of Turkeys deeply rooted secularism, such a risk cannot be totally excluded. | 2 |
Pakistan might import Indian diesel NEW DELHI: India and Pakistan agreed on Monday to step up cooperation in the energy sector, which could lead to Pakistan importing large amounts of diesel fuel from its neighbour, according to Pakistani Foreign Minister Khurshid Mehmood Kasuri. | 2 |
Liquidator focuses on client money The liquidator of Access Brokerage believes client money may have been propping up the business for some time. The small Internet broker collapsed on Friday, with a \$5 million shortfall in its client trust accounts. | 2 |
Scientists achieve new speed record on Internet2 Scientist at CERN have successfully achieved a new land-speed record on the new internet2. The researchers were able to send 859GB of data in less than 17 minutes at a rate of 6.63 gigabits per second, a speed | 3 |
Astronauts float outside ISS for spacewalk Leaving their orbiting outpost unmanned, the international space station #39;s two astronauts floated outside on a spacewalk Friday and plugged in new antennas | 3 |
Monday #39;s NL Capsules Astros pitcher Brandon Backe hit his first career homer, a two-run shot, and allowed one run in seven innings to keep Houston in the thick of the NL wild-card chase with an 11-5 rout of the Cincinnati Reds on Monday. | 1 |
Cabrera Leads Orioles Past Twins 4-1 BALTIMORE -- Back home after a two-week trek, the Baltimore Orioles knocked off another first-place team behind a rookie pitcher who laid to rest all the talk about his supposedly tired arm. | 1 |
Rangers labor in holiday loss The Rangers lineup hit three home runs and racked up 11 hits, but perhaps the most offensive display Monday afternoon came via the usually steady Texas defense. | 1 |
In the #39;Not For Long #39; league, the #39;Skins #39; Joe Gibbs has missed an <b>...</b> When Gibbs last coached a meaningful game in the NFL -- Washington #39;s Jan. 9, 1993, NFC divisional round playoff loss at San Francisco -- Green Bay #39;s Brett Favre was 13 starts into his current 189-game NFL record consecutive starting streak. | 1 |
US death toll in Iraq nears 1,000 as seven more die A car bomb killed seven US Marines and three Iraqi soldiers outside the city of Fallujah yesterday, bringing the total number of American dead since the US invasion of Iraq in March last year close to 1,000. | 0 |
Quickly World NEW YORK - Former US president Bill Clinton was recovering yesterday after a successful heart bypass surgery at the New York-Presbyterian Hospital, a hospital source told Reuters. | 0 |
Schroeder #39;s party routed in state polls BERLIN - Chancellor Gerhard Schroeder and his Social Democrats have suffered a stinging loss in the western state of Saarland in the first of several regional elections whose outcome will measure the political price of unpopular cuts in social welfare | 0 |
Liquidators appointed for Access Interim liquidators have been appointed for no-frills sharebroker Access Brokerage which was suspended from trading on Monday morning after a weekend investigation by the stock exchange. | 2 |
OPEC will keep reference prices unchanged. The Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries, OPEC, will maintain the oil prices reference band unchanged in the coming meeting scheduled for September 15 in Vienna, said Purnomo Yusgiantoro, OPECs president. | 2 |
India gt; Net TV firm Orca, an Emblaze unit, wins India deal Orca Interactive, a unit of Israel #39;s Emblaze Ltd, has won a contract from Atlas Interactive India to provide software used in bringing digital television to broadband customers. | 2 |
New Hurricane Threatens Fla. Space Center Sept. 6, 2004 The damage report isn #39;t even complete, much less an understanding of the impact Hurricane Frances will have on NASA #39;s wallet and scheduled return of the shuttle fleet to flight. | 3 |
NATO, Russia To Meet Over Beslan School Siege 6 September 2004 -- NATO Secretary-General Jaap de Hoop Scheffer has called a special meeting of NATO countries and Russia for tomorrow to discuss the school siege in southern Russia, in which more than 330 people died. | 3 |
ALENIA SPAZIO DELIVERS SPACE STATION CUPOLA TO ESA (AGI) - Turin, Italy, Sept. 6 - Alenia Spazio, a Finmeccanica company, today delivered to the European Space Agency the Cupola for the International Space Station. | 3 |
Oracle touts grid computing to open show Oracle rang in the first day of its OpenWorld European conference series on Monday by touting the growth of grid computing in Europe, followed with the main news of the day: the release of E-Business Suite Version 11i. | 3 |
MLB: Chicago White Sox 7, Texas 4 Carl Everett homered and scored two runs Monday to lead the Chicago White Sox to a 7-4 victory over the Texas Rangers. Jason Grilli (1-1) worked in 5 2/3 innings to earn his | 1 |
Japanese baseball strike nears Professional baseball in Japan has truly come of age: the nation is bracing for its first ever players #39; strike. Athletes are angry about a proposed merger between two clubs, the | 1 |
Holdout offensive tackle signs with Rams The five-time Pro Bowl offensive tackle will get only four days of practice to prepare for the St. Louis Rams #39; opener after signing a one-year contract for \$7. | 1 |
Sad day for Russia THERE is no doubt that the Beslan school siege ended in almost the worst way imaginable. Nightmarish scenes of half-naked, bloodied children running from the school and dead bodies laid out on stretchers spoke of events that had gone dreadfully wrong. | 0 |
7 US Soldiers Killed BAGHDAD, 7 September 2004 - Seven US Marines were killed in a bomb attack near Fallujah yesterday in one of the worst days of US military casualties since the war in Iraq was declared over in May last year. | 0 |
4 Lebanon ministers quit over president #39;s term BEIRUT Four ministers quit the Lebanese government on Monday to protest the passage of a Syrian-inspired constitutional amendment intended to keep President Emile Lahoud in power for another three years. | 0 |
BNZ freezes Access Brokerage #39;s accounts Bank of New Zealand has frozen all accounts held in the name of Access Brokerage, which was yesterday placed in liquidation after a client fund shortfall of around \$5 million was discovered. | 2 |
EU states speak out against Sarkozy plan European governments on Monday spoke out against a French proposal that the European Union restrict development aid to poorer member states that seek to lure foreign investment with low corporate tax rates. | 2 |
Softbank makes mobile complaint SOFTBANK, Japan #39;s largest internet provider, has complained that its plan to offer a new mobile phone service could be thwarted by the government #39;s refusal to provide the necessary bandwidth. | 2 |
SI.com ARLINGTON, Texas (Ticker) -- Miscues and poor clutch hitting led to the Texas Rangers #39; seventh loss in eight games. Chan Ho Park committed two of a season-high five throwing errors for the Rangers while the | 1 |
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