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Mickelson Rates Europe as Ryder Cup Favorites OAKVILLE, Ontario (Reuters) - U.S. Masters champion Phil Mickelson thinks the United States will start as underdogs in this week's Ryder Cup against Europe at Michigan. | 1 |
Suzuki planning India expansion Japanese auto giant Suzuki says it plans to open a new diesel engine factory and a second car assembly plant in India. | 2 |
Arctic's toxic burden harms bears New evidence confirms the damage toxic chemicals are causing to the health of polar bears, conservationists say. | 3 |
House prices show sharp July rise Demand for larger properties pushed house prices up by 2.1 in July, official government figures show. | 2 |
US blow for AstraZeneca Shares in AstraZeneca tumbled today after a key drug it has developed in the fight against strokes was provisionally rejected by US regulators. | 2 |
Is this call for you? Rachel Parnes, who lives near Albany, N.Y., calls her mother in Natick almost daily, instead of weekly, because the price is so cheap. Kevin Clougherty of Chelmsford has friends in England on his speed-dial list. And Raj Sathyaraj of Hudson estimates he's saving \$150 a month on calls to India and Australia since moving from AT amp;T to Vonage Internet phone ... | 2 |
Barrichello takes Italian Grand Prix Rubens Barrichello won yesterday's Italian Grand Prix, overcoming an unscheduled early pit stop to finish ahead of world champion Michael Schumacher in a 1-2 finish by Ferrari on its home track at Monza. Barrichello, who trails Schumacher by 38 points, has won this race two of the last three years, and now has eight Formula One career victories. Schumacher, who ... | 1 |
Transactions BASEBALL Detroit (AL): Recalled P Roberto Novoa, OF Curtis Granderson and INF Ryan Raburn from Erie (EL). | 1 |
His shoulder is still a sore spot for Ortiz SEATTLE -- For David Ortiz , the wonder may be that he has produced as well as he has since he injured his right shoulder diving awkwardly trying unsuccessfully to score Aug. 29 against the Tigers at Fenway Park. Ortiz started yesterday's 2-0 loss to the Mariners on the bench because of nagging soreness in the shoulder. He said he ... | 1 |
Music plus movies, on one player With sales of digital music players skyrocketing, is it any wonder that hardware makers are scrambling to create the next big portable entertainment gizmo? | 2 |
NL notables Cubs shortstop Nomar Garciaparra sat out with a groin injury. He left Saturday's game when he tweaked the groin. | 1 |
AL Notables The Yankees have batted around 30 times this season. The crowd of 41,932 put the Angels over the 3 million mark in attendance for the second year in a row -- and just the second time ever. | 1 |
New contract guarantees Tedford \$1.5M The bad news of Sunday at California will turn into good news Monday when the university announces that Golden Bear coach Jeff Tedford has agreed to a new five-year contract, a Pacific-10 Conference source said. | 1 |
On road, cowardly Lions no more Sure, every team wants to avoid starting the season 0-1. But 0-25? The Detroit Lions knew what was at stake yesterday in Chicago, where they lugged their NFL-record 24-game road losing streak. It followed them through last season like a ripe stench, permeating the locker room and clouding team confidence. The way coach Steve Mariucci saw it, a cleansing was ... | 1 |
Rejuvenated Faulk, Rams edge Cardinals ST. LOUIS -- Marshall Faulk and Emmitt Smith, members of what Faulk jokingly referred to as the quot;Over 30 club, quot; quieted any talk about last hurrahs. Faulk, 31, shared time with St. Louis Rams first-round pick Steven Jackson in yesterday's 17-10 victory over the Arizona Cardinals. But Faulk, who had two knee operations in the last year, carried the load ... | 1 |
Gibbs, 'Skins off to the races It was an emotional return for Joe Gibbs. Tied in the fourth quarter, an interception by Antonio Pierce turned the momentum, and the Washington Redskins beat the Tampa Bay Buccaneers, 16-10, yesterday in Landover, Md., to welcome the Hall of Fame coach back to the NFL after a 12-year hiatus. | 1 |
Revolution need late charge The Revolution have overcome long odds to reach the Major League Soccer playoffs the last two seasons. But, after their 3-2 loss to the MetroStars Saturday night, their chances of continuing that trend seem to be fading. | 1 |
Loyalist admits Finucane murder A man accused of murdering a Belfast solicitor in 1989 pleads guilty, as his trial is about to get under way in the city. | 0 |
Sport's future in world of trouble TORONTO -- There is no mystique to it anymore, because after all, the Russians have become commoners in today's National Hockey League, and Finns, Czechs, Slovaks, and Swedes also have been entrenched in the Original 30 long enough to turn the ongoing World Cup of Hockey into a protracted trailer for the NHL season. | 1 |
Douglas, Sun take a share of first Katie Douglas scored 16 of her 21 points in the second half, and Lindsay Whalen scored 5 points in the last two minutes, leading the Sun to a 71-64 win over the Seattle Storm yesterday in Uncasville, Conn. | 1 |
BC's Peterson a pistol at QB The key third-down conversion was typical of Paul Peterson's play in Boston College's 21-7 victory over Penn State Saturday night in an ABC-televised home opener before a sellout Alumni Stadium crowd. | 1 |
Big things planned All the Bowl Championship Series hopefuls out there should take heart from some scores over the weekend: Fresno State, 45-21, over Kansas State; Boise State, 53-34, over Oregon State; and Utah, 23-6, over Arizona. None of the wins was a fluke. Fresno State has wins over Washington and Kansas State in consecutive weeks. Boise State has the longest winning streak ... | 1 |
Oh, Canada: Weir just can't hang on Already No. 1 in the world, Vijay Singh felt like Public Enemy No. 1 in Canada. | 1 |
Warm feeling from bagels NEW YORK -- The quot;Basel Baker, quot; a.k.a. Roger Federer, was in town yesterday, peddling his finest bagels on an asphalt meadow in Flushing. | 1 |
Ledee leaves Giants for Dodgers CBC SPORTS ONLINE - Free-agent outfielder Ricky Ledee decided Monday to accept a two-year contract offer from the Los Angeles Dodgers. | 1 |
Victory for Barrichello The Brazilian, who took pole position yesterday with Formula Ones fastest-ever qualifying lap, beat Ferrari team-mate Schumacher by 1.3 seconds to the delight of thousands of their passionate home fans. | 1 |
IBM delivers Power-based servers with Linux IBM will push its Power5 line of servers down into the low end of the market, taking Linux with it, when it unwraps an aggressively priced series of Linux-only systems on Monday that will go up against the offerings of Sun Microsystems and Hewlett-Packard. | 3 |
Web services management vendors combine Web services management and security provider Digital Evolution on Monday is announcing its acquisition of former competitor Flamenco Networks, which has provided specialized network infrastructure for implementing SOAs (service-oriented architectures). | 3 |
Borland to tout tool for building Microsoft apps San Jose, Calif. - Borland Software at its BorCon conference here on Monday will preview the upcoming Diamondback release of its Delphi development tool for the Microsoft platform, which is to support development via managed code. | 3 |
Former NBA star acquitted of sexual abuse charges Former NBA star Calvin Murphy has been acquitted of sexual abuse charges. The NBA Hall of Famer wiped away tears as he heard the verdict. | 1 |
Sorrell: #39;I #39;ll make Grey more profitable #39; Sir Martin Sorrell said today that Ed Meyer, the 77-year-old chairman of Grey Global, was ready to accept his advice on how to make the company he has just sold much more profitable. | 2 |
Home Prices Jump In Official Survey New official figures have cast some doubt on the claims that the UK housing market has begun to cool in recent months. Home prices rose by a strong 2.1 during July - despite other evidence that the market | 2 |
Microsoft Notebook: Good news hasn #39;t helped stock price It was an especially eventful summer for Microsoft, with the company unveiling new initiatives to take on rivals Apple Computer and Google, announcing plans for an unprecedented payout to shareholders, and cutting a key feature from designs for the next | 2 |
Porcher doesn #39;t mind not playing considering the circumstances Detroit Lions defensive end Robert Porcher understood why he was benched in Sunday #39;s 20-16 victory against the Chicago Bears, but he might need even more patience before this season is over. | 1 |
US fire kills Arab reporter on air A TV reporter was shot dead as he made a live broadcast from Baghdad on Sunday when US helicopters fired on a crowd that had gathered around the burning wreckage of an American armored vehicle. | 0 |
New shock in Kenteris saga A court appearance by Christos Tsekos, former coach to disgraced Greek sprinter Kostas Kenteris, has been delayed after his defence lawyer died. | 0 |
US Strikes Kill 15 In Al-Fallujah 13 September 2004 -- US aircraft and artillery struck targets in the central Iraqi city of Al-Fallujah today, killing at least 15 people. | 0 |
Indian Software Boom on Track, Industry Head Says (Reuters) Reuters - India's software exports are on track\to grow by 30 percent in the year to March 2005, despite\attempts in the key U.S. market to discourage outsourcing and\protect jobs, the industry's head said on Monday. | 3 |
Iran's Uranium Enrichment Halt to Be Temporary (Reuters) Reuters - Iran's suspension of uranium enrichment,\promised to European Union states last year, will be "short and\temporary," an Iranian official said Monday. | 0 |
U.N. Nuclear Agency Meets to Discuss Iran (AP) AP - The U.N. atomic watchdog agency began a key meeting Monday that will consider a European draft resolution on Iran's nuclear program, with the United States lobbying its allies to have Tehran hauled before the Security Council. | 0 |
A scandal years in the making unfolds Baseball #39;s steroid scandal could be seen coming six years ago. The Olympics have feared the one unfolding now for two decades. | 1 |
Hurricane sends oil prices higher The price of oil is on the rise as fears grow that Hurricane Ivan could disrupt oil supplies from the Gulf of Mexico. | 2 |
England have the weapons for a keen contest After the fateful, the meaningful, as England #39;s Test tour of South Africa officially got under way yesterday. But with eight of the Test squad not involved in the light quartet of one-day | 1 |
Indian Software Boom on Track, Industry Head Says BANGALORE (Reuters) - India's software exports are on track to grow by 30 percent in the year to March 2005, despite attempts in the key U.S. market to discourage outsourcing and protect jobs, the industry's head said on Monday. | 3 |
WPP buys Grey Global WPP beat smaller French rival Havas and US private equity firm Hellman and Friedman, acquiring the last large independent advertising group after a 1990s consolidation in the industry. | 2 |
Report: Ex-Qwest Chief May Face Charges Former Qwest Communications chief executive Joseph Nacchio reportedly may soon face civil charges related to improper accounting at the telecommunications company. | 2 |
UPDATE 3-Bayer and Schering-Plough form drugs alliance Bayer AG forged an alliance for its struggling pharmaceuticals business with US drugmaker Schering-Plough on Monday, cutting costs and marking another step in the German company #39;s transformation. | 2 |
Depression-Drug Suicide Debate Returns to a Boil Two federal advisory panels meet Monday and Tuesday to discuss how to balance growing concerns that antidepressants may increase the risk of adolescent suicide vs. | 2 |
Bayer, Deutsche Bank, Munich Re, SAP, VW: German Equity Preview The following stocks may make significant gains or losses in German markets today. Futures that track Germany #39;s benchmark DAX Index rose 0.4 percent to 3890. | 2 |
Why so many hurricanes? This summer #39;s onslaught repeats a long-term cycle, bringing back warmer waters and more storms. By Peter N. Spotts Staff writer of The Christian Science Monitor. | 3 |
MS, Apple pitch music at mobile phone makers Opinion Microsoft has begun to try and win over the hearts, minds and hardware of mobile phone vendors in a bid to dominate the emerging market for music downloads on handsets. | 3 |
James reveals Ryder rigours For the first time in 17 years, Mark James is planning to relax for this weekend #39;s Ryder Cup. James has been involved with the European team in some form at every Ryder Cup since 1989. | 1 |
The bullet always tells the truth Among soldiers and other hired gunmen, it is said that the bullet always tell the truth. Its the triggermans way of passing moral responsibility for his deed, and his good or ill fortune, from the trigger to the target. | 0 |
U.S. Agencies, Contractors Lead Space Race At four of the region's largest real estate brokerages, more than half the tenants looking for large chunks of space are government agencies or their contractors, and brokers said the increased competition for space among companies in the booming defense and security industries could mean higher rents. | 3 |
Firms to Detail Mars Transport Plans Eleven contractors, including Lockheed Martin Corp. of Bethesda and Orbital Science Corp. of Dulles, are meeting todaywith NASA officials to present ideas for developing the transportation systems that will carry humans once again to the moon and eventually to Mars. | 3 |
Power5 Revs IBM #39;s Linux-Only Server Line IBM will continue pushing its Linux on Power strategy Monday when it unveils a new line of Linux-only servers running on its 64-bit Power5 processor. | 2 |
Indian Software Boom on Track, Industry Head Says India #39;s software exports are on track to grow by 30 percent in the year to March 2005, despite attempts in the key US market to discourage outsourcing and protect jobs, the industry #39;s head said on Monday. | 2 |
Oracle updates business suite Oracle last week revealed more details about the next version of its e-business suite, while pushing the concept of grid computing. | 3 |
EU warns Iran of #39;serious situation #39; on nuclear plans BRUSSELS - European Union foreign ministers Monday urged Iran to suspend its uranium enrichment activities, saying Tehran could face a quot;serious situation quot; if it continued to defy the international community. | 0 |
Germany, Poland play down reparations row BERLIN - German and Polish politicians have played down a resolution by the Polish parliament calling on the government to take legal action aimed at making Germany pay war reparations for Nazi Germany #39;s World War II invasion of Poland. | 0 |
Pentagon Revives Memory Project The Department of Defense is handing out contracts for a project to record what soldiers see and do in battle zones. The new initiative closely resembles another, called LifeLog, that the Pentagon scrapped months ago. By Noah Shachtman. | 3 |
Step Toward Universal Computing A Silicon Valley company claims to have developed a universal emulator that's uncharacteristically fast. For one thing, it could mean the latest games are immediately available for the Mac. By Leander Kahney. | 3 |
Study: Recycling Cost Overstated Nova Scotia makes a name for itself as a rigorous enforcer of recycling. Now a study finds that while the province may be spending millions on its garbage program, it's actually saving far more. By Stephen Leahy. | 3 |
Public Fiber Tough to Swallow Cities that try to set up their own broadband networks are facing staunch opposition from cable and phone companies, who see publicly funded fiber-optic networks as a threat to their own bottom line. By John Gartner. | 3 |
Robot Spider Walks on Water MIT researchers produce a tiny water-skimming robot prototype they think could monitor water supplies for toxins or skim contaminants off the top of water. | 3 |
Web to Handset: Easy Data Dump Three Silicon Valley entrepreneurs want a simple way for folks to populate their mobile devices with data. As cell phones become the one thing to carry -- part phone, part PDA, part camera, part MP3 player -- using Vazu might do the trick. | 3 |
IBM Inks \$1 Billion Voice And Data Deal With Lloyds High-capacity fiber network for voice, data, and video will cut Lloyds bandwidth costs and let it offer new high-bandwidth apps. By Steven Marlin. | 3 |
New Windows OS Boosts Security After years of trying to make it easier for peripheral devices to work smoothly with computers, Microsoft is building in some difficulty. The upcoming Longhorn OS should allow companies to keep gizmos like iPod from stealing data. | 3 |
Oxygen Generator on Space Station Fails The main oxygen generator for the International Space Station has failed, and the two astronauts on board will tap into an attached cargo ship's air supply. | 3 |
Blair set to face unions' wrath as TUC kicks off annual conference (AFP) AFP - Britain's trade unions opened their annual conference amid threats of strike action ahead of a general election expected in 2005, urging Prime Minister Tony Blair's government to tackle concerns about pensions and job cuts. | 0 |
Trend Micro #39;s Free Mobile Anti-Virus Anticipating an avalanche of smartphones and PDA #39;s during the gift-giving season, Trend Micro today released a free trial of its mobile anti-virus (AV) product. | 3 |
Israel to Begin Gaza Compensation Payments (AP) AP - Israel will soon offer large cash advances on compensation to Jewish settlers to entice them to leave their homes, Cabinet ministers said Monday, a day after tens of thousands demonstrated against the planned withdrawal from the Gaza Strip in 2005. | 0 |
Pakistan Clashes Said to Leave 9 Dead (AP) AP - Pakistani security forces and militants clashed on Sunday in fighting that killed at least nine people in the mountains near the Afghan border where al-Qaida-linked fighters are believed to be hiding, military officials said. | 0 |
Stocks Set to Open Up; Grey in Spotlight NEW YORK (Reuters) - Wall Street was set to open higher on Monday, with advertising group Grey Global <A HREF="http://www.investor.reuters.com/FullQuote.aspx?ticker=GREY.O target=/stocks/quickinfo/fullquote">GREY.O</A> in the spotlight after a UK rival agreed to a \$1.31 billion deal to buy the company, while investors will be eyeing higher oil prices and awaiting economic releases later in the week. | 2 |
Powell Defends Cheney's Remarks on Attack (AP) AP - Secretary of State Colin Powell on Sunday defended Vice President Dick Cheney for saying last week that terrorists will hit the United States again "if we make the wrong choice" on Election Day. | 0 |
Stocks to Watch Monday British advertising firm WPP <A HREF="http://www.investor.reuters.com/FullQuote.aspx?ticker=WPP.L target=/stocks/quickinfo/fullquote">WPP.L</A> has agreed to buy smaller U.S. rival Gray Global for \$1.31 billion, equally divided in cash and shares, to put it on par with industry leader Omnicom <A HREF="http://www.investor.reuters.com/FullQuote.aspx?ticker=OMC.N target=/stocks/quickinfo/fullquote">OMC.N</A>. Gray Global shares closed at \$940 on Nasdaq. | 2 |
OPEC Wary as Supplies Weigh on Oil Price VIENNA (Reuters) - OPEC may resist calls to raise oil output quotas much, if at all, when it meets this week for fear of turning a decline from record prices into a rout. | 2 |
Thousands of Unsung Species Co-Endangered Extinction of a species is not just a permanent loss of biological diversity, but may have ripple effects as co-dependent species suffer from the absence of what may be linked predator-prey relationships. Astrobiology Magazine -- The global extinction crisis ignores thousands of affiliated species that are also at risk of being wiped out, making the list of endangered species much larger and more serious than originally thought, says a study produced in part at the University of Alberta... | 3 |
Analyzing the Ring of Life Molecular biologists have uprooted a traditional perspective on life's ancient ancestry, if their supplanted tree-of-life metaphor is modified to look more like a ring-of-life. Astrobiology Magazine -- One of science's most popular metaphors - the "tree of life," with its evolutionary branches and roots, showing groups of bacteria on the bottom and multicellular animals on the higher branches - turns out to be a misnomer, UCLA molecular biologists report in the Sept... | 3 |
Stocks Set to Open Up; Grey in Spotlight Wall Street was set to open higher on Monday, with advertising group Grey Global (GREY.O: Quote, Profile, Research) in the spotlight after a UK rival agreed to a \$1. | 2 |
Safety Group: Car, SUV Bumpers Don #39;t Line Up WASHINGTON -- An insurance group says low-speed crashes result in expensive repairs simply because of differences in the bumper height between cars and sport utility vehicles. | 2 |
Florida likely to get hit again The seemingly nonstop pummeling of Florida during the past month has been the result of a highly active hurricane season mixed with two unusually stubborn high-pressure ridges funneling the storms in a track directly over Florida. | 3 |
Federer breezes to third Slam event Well, theres at least one person who isnt trying to figure out whether Roger Federer could one day complete a Grand Slam or match Pete Sampras career record of 14 major titles: Federer himself. | 1 |
At Least 60 Deaths Caused by Hurricane Ivan UPDATE, SUN 9PM: More than a million people have left their homes in Cuba, as Hurricane Ivan approaches. The ferocious storm is headed that way, after ripping through the Cayman Islands, tearing off roofs, flooding homes and causing general havoc. | 0 |
The Fire This Time Eri Suheri can be seen most mornings in the same spot in front of the Metropolitan Medical Center, an upscale hospital located in the heart of Jakarta #39;s Kuningan business district. | 0 |
China Unicom to open 3,000 Internet cafes in tightly controlled industry (AFP) AFP - China Unicom, the nation's second-largest mobile phone carrier, plans to open up to 3,000 Internet cafes by the end of the year, state media said. | 3 |
Wal-Mart Keeps Sales View (Reuters) Reuters - Wal-Mart Stores Inc. on Monday\said it still expects a 2 percent to 4 percent increase in\September sales at its U.S. stores open at least a year, and\back-to-school demand picked up after a sluggish start. | 2 |
North Korean FM says explosion was demolition blast (AFP) AFP - North Korean Foreign Finister said that a huge explosion in the country's remote interior that triggered fears of a nuclear test was a harmless demolition blast linked to a hydro-electric power project. | 0 |
N.B. residents block off highway to protest cuts to local health care (Canadian Press) Canadian Press - SAINT-QUENTIN, N.B. (CP) - A major highway in northern New Brunswick remained closed to almost all traffic Monday, as local residents protested planned health care cuts. | 0 |
Broadcom downplays inventory glut, shares rise Shares of Broadcom Corp. (BRCM.O: Quote, Profile, Research) rose 9 percent on Monday after the communications chipmaker said the effects of an inventory glut on its revenues should be short-lived. | 3 |
Mobile vendors tie up for mobile TV Nokia, NEC, Motorola, Siemens, and Sony Ericsson have announced their tie-up to decide on a common standard to deliver TV shows straight to the mobile phone over a mobile broadcast network. | 3 |
Novell sees a #39;both-source #39; future com September 13, 2004, 7:51 AM PT. This fourth priority #39;s main focus has been improving or obtaining CRM and ERP software for the past year and a half. | 3 |
Cisco targets SMBs with VoIP-friendly routers Tomorrow Cisco Systems Inc. will announce an upgrade to its small business and branch office line of routers, incorporating more processing speed and a raft of new features. | 3 |
Longhorn equipped against iPod In the next version of Windows, Microsoft will give big companies a way to block use of devices that can easily be used to transfer data to and from personal computers, while making it easier for consumers to connect their home systems to them. | 3 |
Superhighway #39;Could Crumble #39; under Weight of Users The end of the world wide web may be nigh, top technology companies have warned. Predicting a future which would horrify many businesses and email addicts, some experts fear | 3 |
Microsoft courts mainstream developers com September 13, 2004, 6:00 AM PT. This fourth priority #39;s main focus has been improving or obtaining CRM and ERP software for the past year and a half. | 3 |
I Want My MSFT-TV Microsoft (Quote, Chart) showed off its interactive television platform in Amsterdam at IBC2004, an international conference devoted to the broadcasting industry. | 3 |
City #39;s surveillance cameras are making Chicago safer One afternoon in August, about 100 passengers were sitting on a sightseeing boat, cruising down the Chicago River to look at some of the city #39;s most vaunted architectural gems. | 3 |
Oil Rises as Hurricane Moves Toward Platforms in Gulf of Mexico Crude oil futures rose on concern Hurricane Ivan may disrupt production, refining and the arrival of shipments as it moves into the Gulf of Mexico, where a quarter of US oil and natural gas is pumped. | 2 |
Eyes on Eisner For better or worse, the Michael Eisner era at Disney (NYSE: DIS) will be gradually coming to an end after the CEO flipped over a sandglass with two years #39; worth of granular dirt eager to trickle down. | 2 |
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