text string | label int64 |
|---|---|
Serbs in Dispute Over Darwin Vs. Divine (AP) AP - Charles Darwin's evolution theory is out of Serb schools. The Bible is in. | 3 |
Scientists See Success Relocating Palila (AP) AP - Scientists have found two separate breeding pairs of palila nearly a year after the endangered birds were reintroduced to the northern slopes of Mauna Kea. | 3 |
Maine Slated to Get Advanced Microscope (AP) AP - The Jackson Laboratory in Bar Harbor is awaiting delivery next year of what may be the world's most advanced microscope, a #36;1 million machine it will share with other members of a Maine scientific consortium. | 3 |
New Wave of Croakers Wash Ashore in Va. (AP) AP - Thousands of croakers have washed ashore at beaches in recent days, the latest mass deaths of the popular sport and food fish. | 3 |
Genesis Crash Adds to NASA Post-Columbia Troubles (Reuters) Reuters - With NASA's broken Genesis capsule\stuck in the Utah desert and its shuttle assembly building\battered by a hurricane at Cape Canaveral, the U.S. space\agency defended its budget and mission on Wednesday. | 3 |
Iran: OPEC United on Raising Price Target JAKARTA/DUBAI (Reuters) - OPEC is united on the need to raise its oil price target to an average \$30 a barrel, but the cartel has yet to agree on when to implement the higher level, a top Iranian oil official said on Thursday. | 2 |
Health Insurance Premiums Rise 11 Employer-sponsored health insurance premiums rose 11.2 percent this year, registering the fourth consecutive double-digit annual increase and pushing the cost of family coverage under the most common type of plan past \$10,000, according to a new survey. | 2 |
Weekly Jobless Claims Fall Sharply The number of new people signing up for jobless benefits plunged last week, partly reflecting a tapering off of filings related to Hurricane Charley. | 2 |
China Accused of Unfair Trade Policies A group of industry, farm and labor groups, seeking to put pressure on the Bush administration before the presidential election, petitioned the government on Thursday to file an unfair trade practices case against China. | 2 |
Gore: Cheney 'Wrong Choice' Remark Sleazy (AP) AP - Al Gore on Thursday described Vice President Dick Cheney's remark that "the wrong choice" by voters could result in another terrorist attack as "a sleazy and despicable effort to blackmail voters with fear." | 0 |
Md. Geologist Completes Sinkhole Study (AP) AP - A geologist who spent four years traipsing in and around Frederick has mapped areas most likely to develop sinkholes #151; depressions in the earth that appear suddenly, swallowing cars and homes. | 3 |
Some see Cheney's terror remark as 'fear strategy' (USATODAY.com) USATODAY.com - Vice President Cheney was not campaigning Wednesday, but his suggestion a day earlier that electing John Kerry would risk a "devastating" terrorist attack kept agitating the political arena. | 0 |
Developer Wins Victory in WTC Case NEW YORK (Reuters) - A New York developer hoping to rebuild the destroyed World Trade Center on Monday won a major victory against his insurers, when a jury decided the hijacked airline attacks of Sept. 11, 2001, were two separate events. | 2 |
U.S. Ordered to Reduce Crop Supports GENEVA, Sept. 8 -- The United States was ordered to withdraw some of its support for producers of cotton and other commodities, according to a World Trade Organization report made public Wednesday. | 2 |
U.S. to Meet Asian Allies, Chinese on N. Korea (Reuters) Reuters - The chief U.S. negotiator on North\Korea will hold discussions in Japan and China in the next few\days aimed at organizing a fresh round of six-party talks on\dismantling Pyongyang's nuclear programs, a State Department\official said on Tuesday. | 0 |
Intercontinental plans hotel sale Intercontinental Hotels plans to shed properties worth 750m (1.3bn) to help it recover from three years of falling hotel bookings. | 2 |
Karzai talks to Qanuni over cabinet post KABUL, Dec 6: President Hamid Karzai has held discussions with arch rival Yunus Qanuni over a possible position in the next Afghan government, a spokesman for Mr Karzai said on Monday. | 0 |
Russia Slams West for Double Standards on Beslan MOSCOW (Reuters) - Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov accused the West of double standards on terrorism in the wake of his country's bloodiest hostage crisis, highlighting a growing rift over the issue between the former Cold War foes. | 0 |
U.S. Forces on Offensive in Iraq Rebel Strongholds BAGHDAD (Reuters) - U.S.-led forces launched operations in three Iraqi rebel strongholds on Thursday, killing nearly two dozen insurgents in a town near the Syrian border and bombing targets in Falluja for the third straight day. | 0 |
Retail sales soar in South Africa Lower interest rates and taxes have sent South Africans to the shops, driving retail sales up 10 in June on a year ago. | 2 |
Israel Kills 4, Including 9-Year-Old, in Gaza JABALYA, Gaza Strip (Reuters) - Israeli forces thrust into Gaza's largest refugee camp on Thursday, killing four Palestinians including a 9-year-old boy, as the army tightened its grip on the northern part of the coastal strip. | 0 |
U.S. Declares Genocide in Sudan's Darfur WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The United States declared on Thursday genocide has occurred in Sudan's Darfur region and blamed the Khartoum government and Arab militias for the crisis that has driven more than a million people from their homes. | 0 |
Oil moves UK trade deficit higher A monthly deficit on its oil balance saw the UK's worldwide trade gap widen to its highest level since January. | 2 |
Ebookers admits possible sell-off Internet-based holiday company Ebookers confirms it is in talks over a possible sale, sending its shares 22 higher. | 2 |
Pakistan Bombs 'Terrorist Camp,' Kills at Least 50 WANA, Pakistan (Reuters) - Pakistani jet fighters and helicopter gunships pounded a suspected terrorist training camp near the Afghan border on Thursday, killing at least 50 mostly foreign militants. | 0 |
Iran Seen Using EU to Buy Time to Get Atomic Bomb VIENNA (Reuters) - Iran is using negotiations with the European Union's "big three" on suspending sensitive nuclear activities to buy the time it needs to get ready to make atomic weapons, an Iranian exile and intelligence officials said. | 0 |
Scientists 'hopeful' for Genesis Genesis mission specialists are to begin the task of examining the remains of their capsule that crashed in the Utah desert. | 0 |
Argentines rally for bomb justice Thousands of Argentines protest over the failure to find those who bombed a Jewish centre in 1994. | 0 |
U.S. Import Prices Jump 1.7 Percent Soaring petroleum prices pushed the cost of goods imported into the U.S. much higher than expected in August, the government said today. | 2 |
Russia tightens Caucasus security Russia announces a new security structure for the North Caucasus to prevent Beslan-style terror attacks. | 0 |
ADHD parents 'are also affected' Parents of children with attention deficit hyperactive disorder (ADHD), often show signs of the condition themselves, research has suggested. | 0 |
Memos: Bush Suspended From Guard Flying WASHINGTON - Addressing questions that have lingered for years, newly unearthed memos state that George W. Bush failed to meet standards of the Texas Air National Guard during the Vietnam war, that he refused a direct order and that his superiors were in a state of turmoil over how to evaluate his performance after he was suspended from flying... | 0 |
Fla. Urges New Evacuations As Ivan Nears MIAMI - Tourists and residents were told Thursday they will have to leave the Florida Keys to avoid mighty Hurricane Ivan, even as the state still struggled with the misery left by Hurricanes Frances and Charley. Forecasters said Ivan - which strengthened early Thursday to 160 mph - could reach the island chain as soon as Sunday, making it the third hurricane to hit Florida in a month... | 0 |
Stocks Higher on Drop in Jobless Claims NEW YORK - A sharp drop in initial unemployment claims and bullish forecasts from Nokia and Texas Instruments sent stocks slightly higher in early trading Thursday. Investors welcomed the latest Labor Department report, which showed 319,000 new claims for the past week, down 44,000 from a week ago... | 0 |
Fla. Urges New Evacuations As Ivan Nears KEY WEST, Fla. - All tourists and recreational vehicles were urged to evacuate the Florida Keys early Thursday because the powerful Hurricane Ivan could hit the island chain by Sunday... | 0 |
U.S. Jets Bomb Insurgent-Held Iraq Cities BAGHDAD, Iraq - U.S. jets on Thursday pounded the rebel stronghold of Fallujah and a town near the Syrian border that had come under control of insurgents, killing dozens of people, officials and witnesses said... | 0 |
Dog Wiggles Paw Free to Shoot Florida Man PENSACOLA, Fla. - A man who tried to shoot seven puppies was shot himself when one of the dogs put its paw on the revolver's trigger... | 0 |
Stocks Are Set to Open Lower NEW YORK - U.S. stocks are seen lower at the open Thursday as traders get a handle on Federal Reserve Chairman Alan Greenspan's testimony Wednesday... | 0 |
Bill Clinton Helps Launch Search Engine (AP) AP - Former president Bill Clinton on Monday helped launch a new Internet search company backed by the Chinese government which says its technology uses artificial intelligence to produce better results than Google Inc. | 3 |
U.S. Strike Targets in Fallujah and Tal Afar U.S. jets pounded the rebel stronghold of Fallujah on Thursday, and American and Iraqi forces entered the central city of Samarra for the first time in months to try to reseat the city council and regain control. | 0 |
Pakistani Strike on Terror Training Camp Kills 50 Pakistani jets pounded a suspected training facility for foreign militants in a two-hour barrage Thursday in tribal South Waziristan, killing 50 people, senior intelligence and military officials said. | 0 |
Corporates get a case of the wireless jitters <strong>Analysis</strong> Too many systems, too many operators | 3 |
Delete records, or profile the whole UK, says DNA print pioneer Something of a curate's egg of a lash out, this... | 3 |
'Independent' report used MS-sourced data to trash OSS 'Microsoft gave us this stuff, but we haven't checked it' | 3 |
Voting opens for web's villains Web users can vote for the best and worst of the net in the Future UK Internet awards. | 3 |
IBM Releases New Linux-Oriented Database Software SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - International Business Machines Corp. <A HREF="http://www.reuters.co.uk/financeQuoteLookup.jhtml?ticker=IBM.N qtype=sym infotype=info qcat=news">IBM.N</A> late on Wednesday rolled out a new version of its database software aimed at users of Linux and Unix operating systems that it hopes will help the company take away market share from market leader Oracle Corp. <A HREF="http://www.reuters.co.uk/financeQuoteLookup.jhtml?ticker=ORCL.O qtype=sym infotype=info qcat=news">ORCL.O</A>. | 3 |
Nokia Launches Three New Camera Phones HELSINKI (Reuters) - The world's largest mobile phone maker Nokia <A HREF="http://www.reuters.co.uk/financeQuoteLookup.jhtml?ticker=NOK1V.HE qtype=sym infotype=info qcat=news">NOK1V.HE</A> launched on Thursday three new handsets, the 7260, 7270 and 7280 models, all with cameras. | 3 |
Price Cuts Propel UK Sales of Xbox, PS2 LONDON (Reuters) - Last month's back-to-back price cuts by Sony Corp <A HREF="http://www.reuters.co.uk/financeQuoteLookup.jhtml?ticker=6758.T qtype=sym infotype=info qcat=news">6758.T</A> and Microsoft Corp <A HREF="http://www.reuters.co.uk/financeQuoteLookup.jhtml?ticker=MSFT.O qtype=sym infotype=info qcat=news">MSFT.O</A> have boosted sales of their PlayStation 2 and Xbox video game consoles in Britain, retail sources said on Thursday. | 3 |
Congress Puts Hooks in Copyright Crooks Congressional lawmakers are taking a cue from Hollywood with an aim to beef up penalties against people who illegally swap copyrighted movies and songs over the Internet. \<FONT face="verdana,MS Sans Serif,arial,helvetica" size="-2"\ color="#666666"><B>-washingtonpost.com</B></FONT> | 3 |
Debate Draws Distinctions in Candidates' Trade Policies At a "Bush-Kerry trade debate" Wednesday stand-ins for President Bush and Democratic challenger Sen. John F. Kerry outlined the candidates' differences on such issues as outsourcing and free trade. | 3 |
Women Make Small Inroads in Game Industry Jennifer Canada knew she was entering a boy's club when she enrolled in Southern Methodist University's Guildhall school of video game making. | 3 |
Video Game Review: 'Political Machine' Political couch potatoes who can't get enough of the impending presidential election will find endless fun with "The Political Machine." | 3 |
Nokia Hikes Outlook Due to Handset Demand <p>\</p><p> HELSINKI (Reuters) - Finland's Nokia raised its\third-quarter sales and earnings outlook due to strong demand\for mobile phones, reversing a recent spate of grim outlooks\and sending its shares higher on Thursday.</p> | 3 |
Commissioner would accept government help Major League Baseball Commissioner Bud Selig says he would accept government help if the players union doesn #39;t accept rules changes. | 1 |
Europe gives GM seed green light The European Commission says it has approved a genetically-modified seed for planting. | 3 |
Tracking down the 'jungle yeti' Two amateur explorers prepare to fly out to Indonesia in the hope of proving the existence of the "jungle yeti". | 3 |
Pollen helps war crime forensics UK scientists say pollen enabled them to help to convict people in Bosnia on charges of genocide. | 3 |
Swans in a flap about territory Black swans clash with their white rivals in a battle over a Lincoln in lake. | 3 |
Developer Wins Victory in WTC Case (Reuters) Reuters - A New York developer hoping to rebuild\the destroyed World Trade Center on Monday won a major victory\against his insurers, when a jury decided the hijacked airline\attacks of Sept. 11, 2001, were two separate events. | 2 |
Scientists Pick Up Pieces of Genesis Space Capsule By PAUL FOY DUGWAY PROVING GROUND, Utah (AP) -- Scientists with tweezers picked through the twisted wreckage of a space capsule that crash-landed on Earth, hoping that microscopic clues to the evolution of the solar system weren't completely lost in Utah's salt flats. NASA engineers were stunned Wednesday when neither parachute deployed aboard the Genesis capsule and the craft plummeted to the ground at 193 mph, breaking open like a clamshell and exposing its collection of solar atoms to contamination... | 3 |
More Confirmation Mars Had Large Seas Boulder, CO -- Spacecraft observations of the landing area for one of NASA's two Mars rovers now indicate there likely was an enormous sea or lake covering the region in the past, according to a new University of Colorado at Boulder study. Research Associate Brian Hynek of the Laboratory for Atmospheric and Space Physics said data from the Mars Global Surveyor and Mars Odyssey spacecraft now show that the region surrounding the Opportunity rover's landing site probably had a body of water at least 330,000 square kilometers, or 127,000 square miles... | 3 |
Scientists Gain Glimpse of Bizarre Matter in a Neutron Star Scientists have obtained their best measurement yet of the size and contents of a neutron star, an ultra-dense object containing the strangest and rarest matter in the Universe. | 3 |
Common Antibiotic Can Trigger Cardiac Deaths By LINDA A. JOHNSON (AP) -- A common antibiotic prescribed for 50 years to treat everything from strep throat to syphilis dramatically increases the risk of cardiac arrest, especially when taken with certain newer, popular drugs, a study found... | 3 |
Older Runners Improve Overall Performance Faster By DIANE SCARPONI NEW HAVEN, Conn. (AP) -- Runners over age 50 improve their performance more quickly than younger runners, a Yale study found, reinforcing past research on older athletes and the benefits they get from exercise... | 3 |
IBM seeks to ease database burden "Stinger" update of DB2 will focus on automatic administration and an improvement in clustered performance. | 3 |
Longhorn to put squeeze on gadgets The next version of Windows will let companies block access to iPods and other tiny storage devices, News.com has learned.\ | 3 |
Applebee #39;s Predicts Earnings Growth Applebee #39;s International Inc. said Thursday it expects annual earnings per share to grow from 14 percent to 17 percent over the next three to five years beginning in 2005. | 2 |
Anadarko to Buy Back \$1 Billion of Debt Oil and gas exploration company Anadarko Petroleum Corp. said Thursday that it launched cash tender offers for about \$1 billion of its outstanding debt. | 2 |
Study claims lake on Mars was wide, deep NASA #39;s Mars rover Opportunity found evidence for a lake or sea on Mars, and new research suggests the body of water was deep, large and long-lasting. | 3 |
Serbs in Dispute Over Darwin Vs. Divine Charles Darwin #39;s evolution theory is out of Serb schools. The Bible is in. The education minister #39;s decision this week to drop the evolution | 3 |
US Declares Genocide in Sudan #39;s Darfur The United States declared on Thursday genocide has occurred in Sudan #39;s Darfur region and blamed the Khartoum government and Arab militias for the crisis that has driven more than a million people from their homes. | 0 |
Seven Palestinians Killed in Gaza Clashes BEIT LAHIA, Gaza Strip Sept. 9, 2004 - Yasser Arafat #39;s expulsion is quot;closer than ever, quot; the Israeli foreign minister said in remarks broadcast Thursday, and seven Palestinians were killed and 27 wounded | 0 |
Police Find Explosives In St. Petersburg Cinema 9 September 2004 -- Russian police in St. Petersburg said today they found explosives, detonators, and a gun in a cinema which was closed for renovation. | 0 |
Patrick Walters: Countering menace of JI a priority strategic <b>...</b> THE bombing of our embassy underlines the magnitude of the long-term strategic challenge Australia faces in Southeast Asia. It marks the first time Australia has been directly targeted in a terrorist attack in the region. | 0 |
Virtual Server becomes reality After two years of fits and starts, Microsoft will finally deliver its Virtual Server 2005 product, which company officials contend will be an important contributor to its Dynamic Systems Initiative (DSI), the company's plan for managing distributed systems. | 3 |
More big security holes in Linux Open-source developers have warned of serious security holes in two Linux components that could allow attackers to take over a system by tricking a user into viewing a specially crafted image file or opening an archive. Patches exist for the bugs, which affect LHA and imlib. | 3 |
Microsoft set to ship Virtual Server 2005 Microsoft Corp. next month will release Virtual Server 2005, its first foray into server virtualization and a key element of the broad management platform the company is creating for Windows. | 3 |
Online fraud: We got law, but no enforcement Plenty of laws exist to prosecute online identity thieves and fraudsters, and also to co-opt ISPs (Internet Service Providers) and online auction sites into the fight against fraud, but enforcement is lacking across the board, according to security experts. | 3 |
New IBM server supports dual-core Opteron IBM Corp. next week will begin shipping the second generation of its rack-mounted dual processor servers based on Advanced Micro Devices Inc.'s (AMD) Opteron microprocessor. The new server, called the eServer 326, will be IBM's first product specifically designed to support the upcoming dual-core Opteron processors that AMD is expected to ship next year. | 3 |
Real's Music Deal Ends Online store will continue to offer certain songs at low prices, company says. | 3 |
Panasonic DVD Recorder Gets Connected Device offers remote programming, features a whopping 400GB of storage. | 3 |
Sybase Offers Free Database for Linux Company hopes to attract users who will later upgrade to its small business software. | 3 |
'Lord of Rings' Supercomputer Turns to Commerce WELLINGTON, New Zealand (AP) -- A supercomputer used to generate the special effects for the "Lord of the Rings" movie trilogy is turning to commerce, offering its power to commercial customers worldwide, backers said Thursday. Ranked 80th among the world's top 500 powerful computers, it can perform 2.8 trillion calculations per second, said Eric Pilon, a spokesman for the New Zealand Supercomputing Center... | 3 |
Review: Microsoft Fingerprint Reader Delivers By ALEX VEIGA LOS ANGELES (AP) -- Spend time online and odds are you'll have to type a username and password to check your e-mail, access your bank account or read a newspaper story. Enter Microsoft Corp... | 3 |
'Political Machine' Game Brings Politics to PC Political couch potatoes who can't get enough of the impending presidential election will find endless fun with "The Political Machine." This new PC game from Ubisoft pits you as a string-pulling presidential puppet master, aka the campaign manager. | 3 |
RealNetworks Ends Cheap Song Download Promotion SEATTLE (AP) -- RealNetworks Inc. (RNWK) is ending a temporary promotion that slashed the price of its downloadable songs to 49 cents, but bargain hunters will still be able to find some deals at its online music store... | 3 |
Beck's Brewer Sees Beer Demand Rising (Reuters) Reuters - Belgium's Interbrew, which acquired\AmBev to create the world's biggest brewer, reiterated on\Thursday its higher volume and profit targets for 2004 as\demand began to recover from a weak summer. | 2 |
South Korea to provide Iran with 100,000 broadband Internet lines (AFP) AFP - Iran and South Korea have signed a 40 million dollar deal for the provision of 100,000 broadband Internet lines to the Islamic republic. | 3 |
Nokia says third quarter profits will be better than expected (AFP) AFP - Nokia, the world's largest mobile phone maker, said its results for third quarter would be better than earlier forecast due to higher-than-expected handset sales. | 3 |
Heralded Lady Vols' Freshman Has Surgery (AP) AP - Heralded Tennessee freshman Candace Parker underwent knee surgery and could miss the upcoming women's college basketball season. | 1 |
Ontario police forces set to take part in 9-11 anniversary ceremonies (Canadian Press) Canadian Press - TORONTO (CP) - About 60 members of the Toronto Police Services left for New York City Thursday to take part in upcoming ceremonies marking the third anniversary of the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001. | 0 |
Kerry and Bush Election Popularity Tracked on Blog Monitor Kerry and Bush Election Popularity Tracked on Blog Monitor\\The Democratic and Republican Conventions respectively cast John Kerry and George W. Bush into the eyes of those who are in their election day decision making. Besides helping to define the candidates' campaigns, the conventions also legitimized and gave respect to bloggers ... | 3 |
Beck's Brewer Sees Beer Demand Rising BRUSSELS (Reuters) - Belgium's Interbrew, which acquired AmBev to create the world's biggest brewer, reiterated on Thursday its higher volume and profit targets for 2004 as demand began to recover from a weak summer. | 2 |
Bill Clinton Helps Launch Search Engine NEW YORK Dec 6, 2004 - Former president Bill Clinton on Monday helped launch a new Internet search company backed by the Chinese government which says its technology uses artificial intelligence to produce better results than Google Inc. | 2 |
Technology to Drive Changes in Search Engine Marketing Technology to Drive Changes in Search Engine Marketing\\The coming years will be much more interesting as the business of search transits from its adolescence into adulthood. Search engine marketing has matured and is now viewed as an important component in mainstream marketing. The environment is going to change becoming more ... | 3 |
Stem Cell Research Measure Contested (AP) AP - The Roman Catholic Church and the wealthy evangelical Christian Howard Ahmanson Jr. have emerged as the biggest financial backers of the campaign against a California ballot measure that would fund stem cell research and cloning projects. | 3 |
Making Informed Search Keyword Choices Making Informed Search Keyword Choices\\Marketers stake much of their livelihood on keywords, whether for proper search engine optimization or targeted pay-per-click advertising. One challenge faced by inexperienced marketers involves knowing which phrases to target out of hundreds of combinations.\\Often, one will find terms which look good, but later testing reveals ... | 3 |
Smelly Robot Eats Flies to Generate Its Own Power (Reuters) Reuters - British scientists are developing a\robot that will generate its own power by eating flies. | 3 |
Israel Kills 5, Including 9-Year-Old, in Gaza JABALYA, Gaza Strip (Reuters) - Israeli forces thrust into Gaza's largest refugee camp on Thursday, killing five Palestinians including a 9-year-old boy, as the army tightened its grip on the northern part of the coastal strip. | 0 |
News: Telenor takes down 'massive' botnet A network of more than 10,000 zombie PCs has been dismantled after security staff at Norwegian telco Telenor located and shutdown its controlling server. | 3 |
Subsets and Splits
No community queries yet
The top public SQL queries from the community will appear here once available.