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FOOTBALL: DECO: WE MUST KEEP OUR HEADS DECO last night warned his Barcelona team-mates not to repeat last season #39;s costly indiscipline in Glasgow. And he insisted cool heads would do more to unnerve Celtic than the hot tempers which ultimately | 1 |
Baseball Today Houston at St. Louis (8:10 pm EDT). Roger Clemens (16-4) starts for Houston against Jeff Suppan (15-6) and the major league-leading Cardinals. | 1 |
Russia Announces More Funding for Security Russia #39;s finance minister announced a \$5.4 billion increase in funding for four key security agencies on Tuesday, a day after President Vladimir Putin announced his plan for combatting terrorism. | 0 |
Web Site Killings Raise Dilemmas for Media (Reuters) Reuters - A terrified-looking man, rocking back and\forth in his chair with his hands tied behind his back, appeals\to the United States to leave Iraq and spare him death. Then a\hand with a knife appears to slice off his head. | 3 |
Inflation falls further below target (AFP) AFP - Inflation slowed to an annual rate of 1.3 percent in August from 1.4 percent in July, well below the 2.0-percent target used by the Bank of England. | 0 |
Sudan Official Says Darfur Health Normal (AP) AP - A Sudanese official said Tuesday that disturbingly high U.N. estimates of death among Darfur's displaced were mistaken and claimed the health situation was "normal" in the region gripped by what the United Nations has called the world's worst humanitarian disaster. | 0 |
Before-the-Bell: Taser, Oracle Rise NEW YORK (Reuters) - Taser International Inc. <A HREF="http://www.investor.reuters.com/FullQuote.aspx?ticker=TASR.O target=/stocks/quickinfo/fullquote">TASR.O</A> shares were up more than 6 percent in premarket trading on Tuesday after the stun gun maker said it had received orders totaling more than \$1 million. | 2 |
Oracle sees PeopleSoft offer gaining ground The two companies are waiting for a hearing in Delaware next week when a judge will hear evidence from PeopleSoft regarding why its board rejected Oracle #39;s latest bid of \$24 a share. | 2 |
Swedish Stock Exchange Halts Trading Trading in shares of Swedish health care company Gambro AB were halted Monday by the Stockholm Stock Exchange amid a report that a US company was poised to buy one of its units. | 2 |
Kerry Bashes Bush on Assault Weapons Ban WASHINGTON - Sen. John Kerry sought to make President Bush pay a political price Monday for the expiration of a partial assault weapons ban, but other Democrats reacted warily on an issue that has hurt the party in recent elections... | 0 |
Ivan Lashes Cuba With 160 Mph Winds PINAR DEL RIO, Cuba - Packing ferocious winds and whipping up monstrous waves, Hurricane Ivan's eye brushed Cuba's sparsely populated western tip as a treacherous Category 5 storm - the most powerful - and barreled north toward the U.S. Gulf Coast... | 0 |
Sony-Led Group to Acquire MGM for \$3B LOS ANGELES - A consortium led by Sony has agreed in principle to acquire famed Hollywood studio Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer for nearly \$3 billion, MGM said late Monday. The deal marks the last chapter in the history of two of Hollywood's most storied names - MGM, once best known for its musical hits like "Singing in the Rain" and "Meet Me in St... | 0 |
Sony agrees MGM deal The Sony Corporation today agreed to buy the Hollywood film studio Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer and its valuable film library after rival Time Warner withdrew from the bidding. | 2 |
Boots Ends Services Expansion to Focus on Pharmacies (Update1) Boots Group Plc, the UK #39;s largest pharmacy chain, abandoned a failed expansion into unprofitable services such as dentistry and eye laser treatment to focus on fighting off competition from supermarkets. | 2 |
Sun sets up open-source Solaris project Sun Microsystems will create an open-source project around its Solaris 10 operating system by the end of the year, company executives said on Monday. | 3 |
Novell chooses streamlined Linux desktop When Novell #39;s Linux desktop arrives at the end of this year it will be stripped down to avoid integration problems and to keep it simple for users. | 3 |
Microsoft, Polycom team on collaboration products Microsoft Corp. and Polycom Inc. have struck a multi-year agreement to link Microsoft #39;s Office Live Communications Server with Polycom #39;s conferencing products, the companies plan to announce Tuesday. | 3 |
Ericsson awarded Chinese GSM network expansion deal worth US\$150M Wireless equipment maker LM Ericsson said Monday it has received a contract worth about \$150 million US (122.4 million euros ) from Shandong Mobile Communication Co. | 3 |
IBM Donates Voice Code to Apache IBM (Quote, Chart) is donating software for speech-enabled applications to the open source community, a move supported by more than 20 speech vendors and platform companies, including communications systems player Avaya (Quote, Chart). | 3 |
Skirmish delays A #39;s win Eric Chavez singled in the winning run, the fourth lead change in the final four innings of a crazy game. quot;It #39;s was almost like a kickoff of a football game, quot; Chavez said. | 1 |
Newcastle all set to sign Johnsen NEWCASTLE, ENGLAND -- Newcastle United are on the verge of signing former Manchester United and Aston Villa defender Ronny Johnsen on a short-term contract. | 1 |
Car Bomb Detonates Outside of Iraqi Police Recruiting Station in <b>...</b> A car bomb exploded near a police station in the Iraqi capital early today, as dozens of people were applying to join the force, killing at least 32 people and wounding 88, officials said. | 0 |
Japan Confirms Another Case of BSE in Dairy Cow Japan has confirmed a new case of bovine spongiform encephalopathy -- the third discovery of the brain-wasting illness in the country this year. | 0 |
Blair 'shocked' by climate change Prime Minister Tony Blair tells the BBC he believes time is running out on tackling climate change. | 3 |
Surfing the Tsunami A tsunami, a series of large waves caused by the disruption of seawater, is one of the many hazards of living on Earth. A mega-tsunami could cause death and destruction to both the eastern and western Atlantic coasts. | 3 |
UBS buys arm of Julius Baer UBS continued to sweep up private banking assets yesterday with the purchase of the North America wealth management business of Julius Baer, the Swiss private bank. | 2 |
Oil ministers gather in Vienna, oppose high price of oil VIENNA : OPEC ministers gathered in Vienna to talk business, with powerbroker Saudi Arabia saying the 11-member cartel was against a 40-dollar price tag on oil, while admitting it is difficult to reduce. | 2 |
Controversial Disney boss retiring in 2006 In a move that may have been designed to reassure shareholders, Walt Disney CEO Michael Eisner has announced that he will retire from the company when his contract ends in 2006. | 2 |
Boots axes dentistry and chiropody THE flagship Boots store on Princes Street is to lose its dentistry and chiropody clinics as part of a nationwide cutback of services by the company. | 2 |
Storm tracking US hurricane forecasters say the worst may not yet be over for the 2004 season in the Atlantic, based on a trend of above-normal activity during seven of the last nine seasons. | 2 |
Citigroup regrets August bond sale-memo US financial services giant Citigroup (CN: Quote, Profile, Research) regrets its controversial sale of around 11 billion euros (\$13. | 2 |
Symantec under attack from MyDoom Antivirus firm Symantec is facing a denial-of-service attack on its Web site from the latest version of the MyDoom worm. Authors of MyDoom. | 3 |
Sutton, Langer spell it out Bernhard Langer and Hal Sutton stressed the importance of playing this year #39;s 135th Ryder Cup in the #39;right spirit #39; when the US captain met Langer and his 12-man European team at Detroit #39;s Metro Airport on their arrival from London on Monday evening. | 1 |
Baseball Roundup: Brawl Hurts Fans Texas Rangers pitcher Frank Francisco allegedly hurled a chair at some fans heckling the Ranger bullpen after the Rangers hit a ninth inning game tying homer in Oakland. | 1 |
Ayoon wa Azan (His Masters Voice) The anniversary of the 9/11 terrorist attacks went by, mixed with the news of the dreadful incident in the Russian school in Beslan; there were nearly 350 victims, mostly children. | 0 |
WORLD BRIEFS IN AFGHANISTAN. US troops and helicopter gunships killed 22 militants, including three Arab fighters, in the southern province of Zabul, Afghanistan, the military said yesterday. | 0 |
Big Anti-Induce Campaign Planned A music-activism group is staging a massive call-in to congressional members Tuesday to protest the Induce Act and urge protection of consumers' rights to music and movies they own. By Katie Dean. | 3 |
Aural Heaven: IPod and Analog In high-tech Japan, an antiques dealer pioneers a new way to listen to digital music -- by piping the tunes through tube radios. Nobuyuki Hayashi reports from Tokyo. | 3 |
Geeks Code for the Gold Competitors are still going at it in Athens, but this time the teams are trying to write the most elegant code. By Michelle Delio. | 3 |
Satellite Service Battles Lag Satellite internet service providers are often the only alternative to dialup in far-flung areas. The battle with latency still rages, although companies are making gains in upload speeds. By Elliot Borin. | 3 |
Of Mice and Biometrics Microsoft's new keyboard features a fingerprint reader that should have been a handy gizmo. But its price and its unfriendly attitude toward non-Microsoft browsers disappoint. Melissa Kruse reviews the Microsoft Optical Desktop with Fingerprint Reader. | 3 |
Nevada's Seamless E-Vote The success of last week's primary election using touch-screen voting machines heartens officials in other states, where e-voting has been problematic. Still, the Silver State may be in a unique situation. | 3 |
Blue-chip downgrades, higher oil prices pressure stocks By George Chamberlin , Daily Transcript Financial Correspondent. Stocks were mixed Monday as investors reacted to modestly higher oil prices. | 2 |
U.S. Retail Sales Slip on Auto Weakness WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. retail sales posted a larger-than-expected decline in August, a Commerce Department report on Tuesday showed, but the drop was mostly confined to the automotive sector. | 2 |
Mauresmo Ranking Highlights Faults in System LONDON (Reuters) - More a mathematical anomaly than a badge of honor, the world's No. 1 ranking in women's tennis rests this week uneasily on the shoulders of Amelie Mauresmo. | 1 |
Retail Sales Drop in August Shoppers turned tightfisted in August, dropping sales at the nation's retailers by 0.3 percent, providing fresh evidence of an erratic pace of consumer spending in recent months. | 2 |
Dockers seek conciliation help Union officials and leaders at AB Ports are meeting conciliation experts to try to reach an agreement in the docks crisis. | 2 |
Another Canadian qualifies for PGA Tour CBC SPORTS ONLINE - David Hearn became the latest Canadian to qualify for the PGA Tour, earning his card by a single stroke. Hearn, from Brampton, Ont. | 1 |
'Sustainable relief' is way ahead The World Urban Forum hears a call for governments to think beyond merely recovering from natural disasters. | 3 |
Martian Mesas in Stunning Detail These images, taken by the High Resolution Stereo Camera (HRSC) on board ESA's Mars Express spacecraft, show part of a heavily eroded impact crater at Solis Planum, in the Thaumasia region of the southern hemisphere. | 3 |
Cassini Snaps Saturn's Family Portrait The Cassini spacecraft now orbiting Saturn takes a wide-angle view of the ringed planet's extended moon system. Astrobiology Magazine -- A stately Saturn poses for a portrait with five of its moons in this Cassini spacecraft wide angle camera view... | 3 |
Upbeat Outlook Offsets Effects of Aging Positive emotions improve physical, functional health of older adults HealthDayNews -- Positive thoughts can help older people maintain their physical and functional health, while negative emotions can cause a rapid decline, say two studies in the September issue of Psychology and Aging. In the first study, University of Texas researchers tracked 1,558 older Mexican-Americans in five southwestern states for seven years... | 3 |
Troubled airline still flies, but how long? An old joke says US Airways, formed by the merger of Mohawk and Allegheny airlines, should have been named Mo #39; Agony. That is exactly what the airline #39;s investors and employees must be feeling since it filed | 2 |
Pier 1 Imports #39; profit falls 43.3 percent FORT WORTH, Texas -- Pier 1 Imports Inc., a home furnishings retailer, said Tuesday its second-quarter income fell 43.3 percent due to a 3 percent drop in stores open at least a year. | 2 |
Vivendi Net Loss Widens Vivendi Universal posted a near doubling in its first-half net loss to 1.86 billion euros (\$2.28 billion) on Tuesday, hit by currency translation losses linked to its | 2 |
Sky Team Has Three New Member Airlines Sky Team, one of the worlds three airline alliances, announced that Continental Airlines, KLM Royal Dutch Airlines and Northwest Airlines officially joined the alliance at its governing board in New York, Monday. | 2 |
Surprise slowdown in UK inflation Cheaper clothes prices helped to lower the UK inflation rate in August, with the consumer prices index (CPI) down to 1.3 from 1.4 in July. | 2 |
Novell: Linux turns up the heat on Microsoft Novell chief executive Jack Messman sat down with ZDNet UK on Monday at BrainShare in Barcelona, and gave a typically combative take on the current state of the software industry. | 3 |
Kiely triumphs in personal battle with Delap Former Republic of Ireland international teammates Dean Kiely and Rory Delap enjoyed a personal battle as Charlton and Southampton played out a 0-0 draw at the Valley on Monday night. | 1 |
A class operation from start to finish As Mario Lemieux spoke, Martin Brodeur fiddled with the cap to a bottle of water in his left hand, finally fumbling it entirely. As the small piece of white plastic bounced off the dais and to the concrete | 1 |
Cricket: Kenya v Pakistan match abandoned for the day BIRMINGHAM, England : Play in the ICC Champions Trophy Pool C match between Kenya and Pakistan at Edgbaston here was abandoned for the day because of rain without a ball being bowled. | 1 |
Public should be allowed around Buckingham: Minister British Home Secretary David Blunkett said Tuesday that security measures at Buckingham Palace need improvement but the public shouldn #39;t be stopped from coming close to main palaces and monuments across the country. | 0 |
ElBaradei says unclear if Iran nuclear plans peaceful It is unclear if Iran #39;s nuclear ambitions are entirely peaceful, but there is still no firm evidence that Tehran is secretly developing atomic weapons as Washington asserts, the UN nuclear watchdog says. | 0 |
Police search for clues to embassy bombing, using DNA tests The Indonesian police have conducted DNA tests on 117 small pieces of bodies found in the scene of a deadly bombing at the Australian Embassy in Jakarta, and also on family | 0 |
U.S. Current Account Gap Grows to Record (Reuters) Reuters - The U.S. current account gap widened\again in the second quarter, growing to a record #36;166.18\billion, the Commerce Department said on Tuesday. | 2 |
U.S. Retail Sales Slip on Auto Weakness (Reuters) Reuters - U.S. retail sales posted a\larger-than-expected decline in August, a Commerce Department\report on Tuesday showed, but the drop was mostly confined to\the automotive sector. | 2 |
U.S. Treasuries Falter as Core Sales Rise (Reuters) Reuters - Treasuries prices turned slightly\lower on Tuesday in a classic buy the rumor sell the fact\reaction as a reading on U.S. consumption proved not as weak as\some had been betting. | 2 |
Retail Sales Drop 0.3 Percent in August (AP) AP - Shoppers turned tightfisted in August, dropping sales at the nation's retailers by 0.3 percent, providing fresh evidence of an erratic pace of consumer spending in recent months. | 2 |
Talk Is Cheap Using Internet Long-Distance (AP) AP - Jorge Chavez, sitting in his office on a used car lot in Hollywood, picks up the phone and dials his sister in Peru. Nothing unusual about that #151; except that the call went out over the Internet, sounded as clear as if he had been calling Fort Lauderdale, and cost just a few pennies. | 3 |
Kroger Quarterly Profit Slips (Reuters) Reuters - Kroger Co. , the largest U.S.\grocer, on Tuesday reported a lower quarterly profit, hurt by\debt costs even as sales rebounded in Southern California where\it was hit by a strike. | 2 |
China Faces New Textile Import Limits (AP) AP - A top U.S. commerce official said he told China to expect American textile makers to seek new limits on Chinese imports as soon as next week, as he also urged Beijing to do more to stop piracy and lower trade barriers. | 0 |
U.S. Treasuries Falter as Core Sales Rise NEW YORK (Reuters) - Treasuries prices turned slightly lower on Tuesday in a classic buy the rumor sell the fact reaction as a reading on U.S. consumption proved not as weak as some had been betting. | 2 |
Dollar Down on Record Current Account Gap NEW YORK (Reuters) - The dollar slipped against the euro and the yen early in New York on Tuesday immediately after the release of data showing the U.S. current account deficit ballooned to a new record of \$166.18 billion in the second quarter. | 2 |
Report: Heat to Cause More Calif. Deaths (AP) AP - Longer and more intense heat waves throughout California in the decades ahead will lead to more heat-related deaths in several major cities, according to a new report. | 3 |
Navy Ship to Become Scientific Explorer (AP) AP - It started out listening for enemy submarines, once plied the oceans searching for drug traffickers and recently ran aircraft surveillance for ships gearing up for duty in the Iraq war. | 3 |
Kroger Quarterly Profit Slips NEW YORK (Reuters) - Kroger Co. <A HREF="http://www.investor.reuters.com/FullQuote.aspx?ticker=KR.N target=/stocks/quickinfo/fullquote">KR.N</A>, the largest U.S. grocer, on Tuesday reported a lower quarterly profit, hurt by debt costs even as sales rebounded in Southern California where it was hit by a strike. | 2 |
West Africa currency switch looms The eight west African states that use the CFA franc prepare to replace their banknotes in an effort to halt counterfeiting. | 2 |
Retail Sales Drop 0.3 Percent in August Shoppers turned tightfisted in August, dropping sales at the nation's retailers by 0.3 percent, providing fresh evidence of an erratic pace of consumer spending in recent months. | 2 |
Jobs outlook brightens Almost one-third of Mesa Countys employers plan to hire additional workers during the final three months of this year, according to a survey by a nationwide temporary-services firm. | 2 |
Packers Win Season Opener It was a battle between the some of the league #39;s best offensive and defensive lines. Packers have pieced together one of the better offensive lines in the NFC. | 1 |
First the game, then ... One final horn-honking, flag-waving frenzy for the fans. One last, glorious opportunity for 40 of the world #39;s best players to pull on their nation #39;s colours and leave them wanting more in what should be a tremendous World Cup final. | 1 |
Royals Blast Yankees Kansas City, MO (Sports Network) - Angel Berroa went 5-for-5 with five runs scored and Kansas City exploded for 10 runs in the fifth inning en route to a 17-8 victory over the New York Yankees in the opener of a three-game series at Kauffman Stadium. | 1 |
Sharon Rejects Call for Referendum on Gaza Withdrawal Plan Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon has rejected a call from a key political rival from his own Likud Party for a national referendum on his plan to withdraw all Jewish settlers from the Gaza Strip. | 0 |
Ground Zero Workers File Billion-Dollar Health Lawsuit Nearly three years to the day of the 9/11 terrorist attacks, lawyers for more than 800 "Ground Zero" rescue and clean-up workers announced Monday a billion-dollar class-action lawsuit against owners of the World Trade Center for exposing the workers to allegedly toxic conditions. | 3 |
Carl Zeiss in \$1.1bn deal to purchase Sola Germany #39;s Carl Zeiss, which makes binoculars, microscopes and lenses for Hasselblad cameras, said yesterday it had joined with private equity firm EQT to acquire California | 2 |
Global Markets: Ivan Blows Oil Higher (Reuters) Reuters - Hurricane Ivan blew oil prices back\above #36;44 a barrel on Tuesday, fueling fears of disruption to\supplies and giving European investors an excuse to take\profits from stock markets at 10-week highs. | 2 |
Treasuries Slip After Retail Report (Reuters) Reuters - Treasuries prices turned lower on\Tuesday in a classic buy-the-rumor, sell-the-fact reaction as a\reading on U.S. consumption proved not as weak as some had been\betting. | 2 |
Among the well-heeled at the world polo championships in Chantilly (AFP) AFP - Maybe it's something to do with the fact that the playing area is so vast that you need a good pair of binoculars to see the action if it's not taking place right in front of the stands. | 0 |
US retail sales down 0.3 percent in August (AFP) AFP - US retail sales fell 0.3 percent in August, marking the third decline in the past five months, according to an estimate from the Commerce Department. | 2 |
Yahoo to Buy Musicmatch for #36;160M in Cash (AP) AP - Internet portal Yahoo Inc. said Tuesday that it agreed to buy Web-based digital music and software provider Musicmatch Inc. for #36;160 million in cash, in a deal which will supplement the offerings of Launch, Yahoo's digital music site. | 3 |
Hurricanes Hit Office Depot Profit (Reuters) Reuters - Office Depot Inc. on Tuesday\warned of weaker-than-expected full-year profit because of the\string of hurricanes in Florida and poor sales across North\America and Europe, sending its stock down nearly 8 percent. | 2 |
China offers US firms opportunities but must protect copyright: US official (AFP) AFP - China's booming market offers opportunities for US manufacturers but Beijing must crack down on copyright violations, US Undersecretary of Commerce for International Trade Grant Aldonas said. | 0 |
Update 2: Swedish Exchange Halts Gambro Trading Trading in shares of Swedish health care company Gambro AB were halted Monday by the Stockholm Stock Exchange following a report that the US dialysis company DaVita Inc. | 2 |
Stocks Flat as Oil, Retail Sales Weigh NEW YORK (Reuters) - U.S. stocks opened little changed on Tuesday as concerns over higher oil prices damaging corporate profits weighed on investor sentiment, while a dip in retail sales also dampened the mood. | 2 |
Retail Sales Down; Trade Gap Larger WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. retail sales dipped in August and the U.S. gap with its international trade partners widened to a record level in the second quarter of the year, government reports released on Tuesday showed. | 2 |
Global Markets: Ivan Blows Oil Higher LONDON (Reuters) - Hurricane Ivan blew oil prices back above \$44 a barrel on Tuesday, fueling fears of disruption to supplies and giving European investors an excuse to take profits from stock markets at 10-week highs. | 2 |
Offshore tax guru sentenced to six months A self-professed guru of offshore tax havens was sentenced to six months in prison Monday for conspiring to defraud the Internal Revenue Service after prosecutors urged a | 2 |
Treasuries Slip After Retail Report NEW YORK (Reuters) - Treasuries prices turned lower on Tuesday in a classic buy-the-rumor, sell-the-fact reaction as a reading on U.S. consumption proved not as weak as some had been betting. | 2 |
Alcoa Plans to Declare Force Majeure NEW YORK (Reuters) - Alcoa Inc. <A HREF="http://www.investor.reuters.com/FullQuote.aspx?ticker=AA.N target=/stocks/quickinfo/fullquote">AA.N</A> on Tuesday said it plans to declare force majeure to its customers due to a temporary shutdown at its Jamalco refinery in Jamaica and damage to the port from which the plant ships its alumina caused by Hurricane Ivan. | 2 |
Saudi Arabia Leads OPEC Oil Rush VIENNA (Reuters) - OPEC is keeping its foot to the pedal on production in a bid to drag down oil prices but may be reluctant to rubber-stamp extra supplies by lifting official output limits, Saudi Arabia said on Tuesday. | 2 |
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