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Indians Promote Right-Hander Kyle Denney (AP) AP - The Cleveland Indians called up right-hander Kyle Denney to start Tuesday night against Detroit. | 1 |
Lightning Re-Sign Captain Andreychuk (AP) AP - The Tampa Bay Lightning re-signed captain Dave Andreychuk to a one-year contract Tuesday. | 1 |
Hurricanes Hurt Office Depot's Profit CHICAGO (Reuters) - Office Depot Inc. <A HREF="http://www.investor.reuters.com/FullQuote.aspx?ticker=ODP.N target=/stocks/quickinfo/fullquote">ODP.N</A> on Tuesday warned that profit for the rest of the year would fall short of forecasts because of the string of hurricanes in Florida and poor sales elsewhere, sending its stock down 6.5 percent. | 2 |
Kroger Profit Falls, Warns on Sales NEW YORK (Reuters) - Kroger Co. on Tuesday posted a 25 percent drop in quarterly profit and warned it may miss a key 2004 sales target because of lingering woes from a Southern California strike, sending its shares down sharply. | 2 |
Dollar Slips on Current Account Deficit NEW YORK (Reuters) - The dollar was on the defensive on Tuesday as data showing the U.S. current account deficit ballooned to a new record in the second quarter put further downward pressure on the U.S. currency. | 2 |
KLM, Northwest And Continental Join Skyteam Alliance NEW YORK, Sept 13 (AFP) - The Skyteam airline alliance announced Monday that Dutch airline KLM and US carriers Northwest and Continental will join from Wednesday, making it the second biggest in the world behind the Star Alliance. | 2 |
Ryder-Monty is Europe #39;s likely trump card - Clarke Europe are banking on another talismanic display from Colin Montgomerie at this week #39;s Ryder Cup, according to his team mate Darren Clarke. | 1 |
Iraqi pipeline blown up Saboteurs have blown up a junction where multiple oil pipelines cross the Tigris River in northern Iraq. The blast has caused a fire that could take three days to extinguish. | 0 |
Grocer Takes a Tumble Labor problems and debt retirement contribute to Kroger's second-quarter slip. | 2 |
New U.S. Offensive Could Backfire in Iraq LONDON (Reuters) - Fierce guerrilla attacks in Iraq and U.S. assaults on rebel bastions have unleashed a new wave of bloodshed that threatens to discredit the interim government and undermine prospects for fair elections in January. | 0 |
Economy-Stock Market Link Can Be Confusing (AP) AP - The link between the stock market and the economy sometimes can sound like the chicken and the egg scenario #151; Which comes first? | 2 |
Jordan launches Internet network to link state universities (AFP) AFP - Jordan has launched a broadband Internet network to link eight state universities in an initiative unveiled on the sidelines of a two-day IT forum that got underway. | 3 |
Dollar dips on US current account concerns (AFP) AFP - The dollar dipped amid concerns about the US position with the rest of the world following data showing a record current account deficit in the second quarter. | 0 |
Schwab Paying #36;350,000 Fine in Settlement (AP) AP - Brokerage Charles Schwab amp; Co. has agreed to pay a #36;350,000 civil fine to settle federal regulators' allegations that it illegally allowed certain customers to change mutual fund trade orders after the market's close. | 2 |
Tropical Storm Jeanne Forms in Atlantic (AP) AP - Tropical Storm Jeanne formed Tuesday in the Atlantic Ocean Tuesday and was expected to hit Puerto Rico with strong wind and heavy rain by Wednesday morning. | 0 |
Malaysian Ruling Party Rejects Anwar (AP) AP - The leaders of Malaysia's ruling party unanimously refused Tuesday to allow one-time rising star Anwar Ibrahim to rejoin the organization, a day before a crucial court ruling that could clear his return to politics. | 0 |
Experts Link Some Drugs to Teen Suicide BETHESDA, Md. (Reuters) - The use of some antidepressant drugs appears linked to an increase in suicidal behavior in some children and teen-agers, a U.S. advisory panel concluded on Tuesday. | 2 |
Are Polar Bears Suffering from Industry Chemicals? (Reuters) Reuters - New evidence shows that polar bears are\suffering from industrial chemicals swept to the Arctic from\nations thousands of miles to the south, the WWF global\conservation organization said on Monday. | 3 |
Cocaine-use charges send Bush book soaring up bestseller lists (AFP) AFP - Allegations that US President George W. Bush snorted cocaine at Camp David while his father was in office have fuelled sales of a new, gossip-filled book about the Bush family by controversial celebrity biographer Kitty Kelley. | 0 |
Syria, Lebanon Reject Foreign Criticism of Ties (Reuters) Reuters - Syria and Lebanon rejected any outside\role in shaping their relations Sunday, a day after a top State\Department official said Damascus should pull its troops from\its small neighbor. | 0 |
Colombia Indians rally for peace Thousands of Colombia's indigenous Indians call on rebels and paramilitaries to respect their lands. | 0 |
Office Depot Misses School Hurricanes, weak back-to-school sales, and weak European business bring an earnings warning. | 2 |
In Senate Hearing, Goss Pledges Nonpartisanship Porter J. Goss, President Bush's nominee to head the Central Intelligence Agency, promised his full cooperation with lawmakers. | 0 |
Cabinet OKs Payment to Jewish Settlers JERUSALEM - Israeli Cabinet ministers approved cash advances Tuesday of up to \$115,000 to Jewish settlers willing to leave their homes in the Gaza Strip and West Bank - the first concrete step toward carrying out Prime Minister Ariel Sharon's contentious pullout plan. In a sign of growing tensions, Israeli police said Sharon and an official planning the withdrawal have been the targets of death threats by Jewish extremists... | 0 |
FDA Eyes Rules on Child Anti-Depressants WASHINGTON - Federal health advisers considering more stringent warning labels for anti-depressants linked to suicidal thoughts among children were told on Tuesday that a new warning added in March appeared to have little impact on children's use of the drugs. Children aged 1 to 17 still account for 7 percent of anti-depressants prescribed, said Michael Evans of the Food and Drug Administration's Office of Drug Safety... | 0 |
Stocks Mixed As Oil Prices Remain Higher NEW YORK - Stocks were narrowly mixed Tuesday as oil prices remained higher and Wall Street weighed a lackluster report on retail sales, but light volume showed that many investors remained on the sidelines. With Hurricane Ivan threatening oil rigs in the Gulf of Mexico, crude futures moved higher for the second straight day, but the possibility of an increase in output from OPEC took the edge off investors' concerns... | 0 |
Iraq Pledges to Improve Oil Security The man in charge of Iraq #39;s massive oil sector promised to better protect infrastructure critical to production and exports as saboteurs underscored the difficulty of that task by blowing up a pipeline junction in northern Iraq. | 2 |
Schwab Paying \$350,000 Fine in Settlement Brokerage Charles Schwab amp; Co. has agreed to pay a \$350,000 civil fine to settle federal regulators #39; allegations that it illegally allowed certain customers to change mutual fund trade orders after the market #39;s close. | 2 |
WPP wins #39;750m #39; US takeover bid Advertising giant WPP is to buy US firm Grey Global, in a deal which could be worth as much as 750m (\$1.3bn). The UK-based group won the auction for Grey Global, the seventh-largest advertiser in the US, against | 2 |
Vivendi losses surge PARIS, Sept 14 (AFP) - French media giant Vivendi Universal on Tuesday reported a surge in its net loss so far this year but forecast a sharp turnaround in its finances for all of 2004. | 2 |
Continental, KLM, NWA join SkyTeam Continental Airlines, KLM Royal Dutch Airlines and Northwest Airlines Corp. have joined the SkyTeam Airline Alliance. This will allow passengers to accrue frequent flyer miles interchangeably | 2 |
Q2 #39;s current-account deficit widens to record \$166.2 bln CHICAGO (CBS.MW) -- The dollar declined Tuesday following a Commerce Department report that showed a broad US measure of trade and investment flows swelled to a record deficit in the second quarter. | 2 |
Smith Takes a Pounding AO Smith (NYSE: AOS), North America #39;s largest manufacturer of electric motors, shocked investors this morning by drastically reducing third-quarter earnings guidance to breakeven | 2 |
ALITALIA: AGREEMENT WITH PILOTS #39; UNION FALLS THROUGH (AGI) - Rome, Italy, Sep. 14 - Negotiations between Alitalia and the professional pilots #39; union have come to a dead end due to lack of agreement between ANPAC and Unione Piloti. | 2 |
Symbol, Proxim settle WLAN patent case Symbol Technologies and Proxim Corporation said Tuesday (Sept. 14) that they have settled a patent infringement case focusing on wireless LAN (WLAN)technology. | 2 |
Linux gets standard, makes move preserve interoperability The Free Standards Group (FSG) has announced the release of a specification that aims to help keep the Linux operating system from fragmenting and allow applications developed for one version of Linux to work on one another. | 3 |
Carolina Panthers Team Report (Sports Network) - Things did not go exactly as planned for the defending NFC champs on Monday night. Opening the season in front of a raucous home crowd against the Green Bay Packers, Carolina looked nothing | 1 |
Owner of Texas Rangers issues apology after thrown-chair incident OAKLAND, Calif. The owner of the Texas Rangers has issued an apology after a fan suffered a broken nose after getting hit by a thrown chair during last night #39;s game in Oakland. | 1 |
Expos reinstate Ohka, Rauch from disabled list The Montreal Expos reinstated right-handers Tomo Ohka and Jon Rauch from the 15-day disabled list Tuesday. The Expos initially though Ohka might miss the rest of the season with a broken right forearm after he was hit by a line drive June 10. | 1 |
Champions League matches in Group A Spanish right sided midfielder Antonio Nunez is still missing with an ankle injury while back-up keeper Chris Kirkland is doubtful with a back problem. | 1 |
ID Theft Case Yields Guilty Plea A computer technician who prosecutors said made possible the largest identity theft in U.S. history, surpassing \$50 million, pleaded guilty Tuesday to conspiracy in a scheme that poached personal information from tens of thousands of people. | 3 |
New National Indian Museum Is Native by Design From the wetlands out front to the undulating exterior, Washington, D.C.'s new National Museum of the American Indian is built on native ideas. <i>Includes photo gallery.</i> | 3 |
Bushmen Tour U.S. to Fund Court Land Fight A group of Bushmen are touring the U.S. to raise funds for a court battle against the Botswana government over ancestral lands in the Kalahari Game Reserve. | 3 |
Birding Column: Shorebirds in Malibu Surfers and sunbathers aren't the only ones to crowd the beach, as birding columnist Mathew Tekulsky discovers during a visit to California's Malibu Lagoon State Beach. | 3 |
Regaining Fury, Hurricane Ivan Churns Toward Cuba Hurricane Ivan will pass near or over the western tip of Cuba today. The powerful Category Five storm, which has already claimed 65 lives, will bring devastating winds and a potential storm surge of 20 feet (6 meters) or more. | 3 |
Penguin Decline Due to Global Warming? Scientists are investigating whether global warming is linked to declining penguin populations on South Africa's Prince Edward Islands and Antarctica. | 3 |
Worm Bins Turn Kitchen Scraps Into Compost For environmentally minded urbanites, no kitchen is complete without an accessory that treats hundreds of wriggling, red guests to dinner: a composting worm bin. | 3 |
SAP hopes partnership helps ring up sales SAP America and ADP are partnering to add HR and payroll services to SAP's Business One software for small companies. | 3 |
Briefly: Hitachi unleashes 100GB notebook drives roundup Plus: Web services security outfits merge...Groups push on for TV on cell phones...Shopping.com holders cut IPO shares. | 3 |
SanDisk to supply Samsung with MiniSD SanDisk announces that it plans to supply Samsung Electronics with 32MB miniSD cards for its SPH-S2300 cell phone. | 3 |
Sony begins mass production of OLED screens The electronics giant has begun production of next-generation screens using organic light-emitting diode technology. | 3 |
Yahoo Buys Musicmatch Company hopes the \$160 million purchase will make it a major player in the music market. | 3 |
Sony Buys MGM in \$12 per share deal The Associated Press is reporting that film and television studio Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Inc. has agreed to let itself be bought out by a consortium headed by Sony. | 2 |
Intrawest enjoys strong finish to fiscal year Vancouver #39;s Intrawest Corp. returned to profitability in its fourth-quarter results released Tuesday as stronger results from its management services and real estate development operations made up for a poor showing from its resort operations. | 2 |
Infocus: Metasploit Framework, Part 3 This third and final article in the Metasploit series covers the msfcli scripting interface as well as the intuitive web interface to the Framework. The article also discusses what's new with version 2.2, and then introduces the exploit development process through an example. | 3 |
Experts Link Some Drugs to Teen Suicide (Reuters) Reuters - The use of some antidepressant\drugs appears linked to an increase in suicidal behavior in\some children and teen-agers, a U.S. advisory panel concluded\on Tuesday. | 2 |
IG Metall union vows to stand strong in salary negotiations with VW (AFP) AFP - The IG Metall union pledged its determination to prevail in what is expected to be turbulent salary negotiations this week with car manufacturer Volkswagen, which is demanding large sacrifices from employees. | 0 |
Carolina WR Smith Undergoes Surgery (Reuters) Reuters - Carolina\Panthers wide receiver Steve Smith underwent successful surgery\on his broken left leg Tuesday and needs at least eight weeks\to rehab. | 1 |
Sabres Re-Sign Forward Andrew Peters (AP) AP - Forward Andrew Peters re-signed with the Buffalo Sabres on Tuesday. | 1 |
McDonald's Raises Dividend, Shares Climb LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - McDonald's Corp. <A HREF="http://www.investor.reuters.com/FullQuote.aspx?ticker=MCD.N target=/stocks/quickinfo/fullquote">MCD.N</A> on Tuesday raised its annual dividend 38 percent, a move the world's largest restaurant chain said is another sign of its revitalization. | 2 |
Hurricane, Oil Worries Pressure Stocks NEW YORK (Reuters) - U.S. stocks struggled to make gains on Tuesday as oil prices rose and investors feared economic fallout from Hurricane Ivan as it roared into the Gulf of Mexico toward a possible landfall in the United States. | 2 |
Carolina WR Smith Undergoes Surgery CHARLOTTE, North Carolina (Sports Network) - Carolina Panthers wide receiver Steve Smith underwent successful surgery on his broken left leg Tuesday and needs at least eight weeks to rehab. | 1 |
Kerry Asks FEC for Recount Advice (AP) AP - Election Day is several weeks away, but Democratic presidential candidate John Kerry's campaign is already considering its fund-raising options should Kerry or President Bush pursue a recount like the famous Florida ballot dispute in 2000. | 0 |
Car Bomb Near Baghdad Police Headquarters Kills 47 BAGHDAD (Reuters) - A huge car bomb ripped through a crowded market near a Baghdad police headquarters Tuesday, killing 47 people and wounding more than 110 in the deadliest single attack in Iraq's capital in six months. | 0 |
Blair Fears Climate Change Disaster, Challenges US LONDON (Reuters) - Britain's Tony Blair pledged on Tuesday to force international action on global warming, despite the reluctance of big powers like the United States. | 0 |
Jacques Villeneuve to test for Mild Seven Renault F1 Team at Silverstone The Mild Seven Renault F1 Team this evening announced that French-Canadian Jacques Villeneuve will test for the team at Silverstone. | 1 |
IETF deals Microsoft's e-mail proposal a setback A proposed technology for identifying the source of e-mail messages suffered a blow last week when a group within the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) established to study the proposal sent it back for more work, citing concerns over vague intellectual property claims made by Microsoft Corp. covering some of the technology. | 3 |
Sun, Microsoft to Detail Interoperability Companies will demonstrate how their technology will work together. | 3 |
Sony Bags a Lion Looks like Sony (NYSE: SNE) will have a lion #39;s head displayed proudly at its corporate offices. The Japanese electronics giant seems to have wrapped up the deal to purchase Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (NYSE: MGM). | 2 |
Proxim, Symbol Settle Patent Dispute After months of litigation, Proxim and Symbol Technologies have finally settled their legal spat. Proxim has agreed to pay \$22.75 million, plus a 2 percent royalty on future sales of certain products. | 2 |
Second-guessing the Fed Has the economy #39;s #39;soft patch #39; passed? Is inflation about to pop? The bond market doesn #39;t think so. By Mark Gongloff, CNN/Money senior writer. | 2 |
S amp;P may cut Interpublic Group of Cos corp credit Standard amp; Poor #39;s said on Tuesday it may cut the corporate credit rating of The Interpublic Group of Cos. (IPG.N: Quote, Profile, Research) citing growing concerns over senior | 2 |
Newly released LSB 2.0 gains powerful industry ally Two non-profit organizations devoted to promoting free and open source software standards have made a cooperative agreement. The Free Standards Group (FSG) and the Open Source Development Labs (OSDL) will | 3 |
Making It Easier To Manage Heterogeneous Desktop Systems A vendor is pushing products designed to let admins manage whole infrastructures from a Windows computer. By Larry Greenemeier. In a bid to help systems administrators extend their Windows-management tools | 3 |
Volunteers sought for Mozilla preview push com September 14, 2004, 11:36 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 |
McCartney Rumored Apple Board Member In quot;Mind Boggling quot; Beatles <b>...</b> Variety has set the speculation machines on fire today by reporting that Apple and The Beatles are close to a settlement in the two companies #39; legal dispute. | 3 |
Lightning, Andreychuk agree on 1-year deal CBC SPORTS ONLINE - As expected, the Tampa Bay Lightning are bringing back their captain, Dave Andreychuk, for another season. The Lightning on Tuesday announced the 40-year-old Andreychuk,had agreed to a one-year deal. | 1 |
Trail of tragedy in the Caribbean; Yucatan coast threatened MEXICO CITY, September 13.- The number of fatalities caused by Hurricane Ivans passage through the Caribbean rose to at least 70 this Monday. | 0 |
Labour peer says Blair considered quitting due to family pressures (Canadian Press) Canadian Press - LONDON (AP) - Fuelling persistent rumours that Tony Blair considered resigning this year, an acquaintance said Tuesday the prime minister had come under "colossal strain" at home. | 0 |
Young Soccer Players Tackle Deadly Disease (AP) AP - Beverly Castriotta lost her husband to cancer two years ago. Her 12-year-old son, Joey, and his soccer teammates are doing their best to help prevent other youngsters from losing loved ones to deadly diseases. | 1 |
Texas Rangers Reliever Charged with Assaulting Fan SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - A Texas Rangers relief pitcher was arrested and charged with assault after flinging a chair into the stands and injuring a woman during a baseball game in Oakland, California, officials said on Tuesday. | 1 |
U.S. Applauds Dalai Lama Group in China (AP) AP - The State Department welcomed on Tuesday the arrival in China of a delegation representing the Dalai Lama, the exiled Tibetan spiritual leader. | 0 |
Michael Jordan Morale Boost for U.S. Ryder Cup Team BLOOMFIELD HILLS, Michigan (Reuters) - U.S. Ryder Cup captain Hal Sutton enlisted the help of basketball great Michael Jordan to boost his team's morale for this week's match with a pep talk. | 1 |
Edwards Compares Bush to Enron's Lay (AP) AP - Democrat John Edwards compared President Bush to former Enron Corp. chairman Kenneth Lay on Tuesday and predicted Bush "is going to be fired" by voters for the way he has run the country. | 0 |
Israeli Settler Pay Approved, Sharon Faces Threats JERUSALEM (Reuters) - Israel's security cabinet approved cash advances Tuesday to entice Gaza settlers to evacuate their homes, while police investigated death threats against Prime Minister Ariel Sharon sparked by his pullout plan. | 0 |
Blair Fears Climate Change Disaster, Challenges U.S. LONDON (Reuters) - Britain's Tony Blair pledged on Tuesday to force international action on global warming, despite the reluctance of big powers like the United States. | 0 |
N.Ireland's Sinn Fein Says Bugged by British BELFAST, Northern Ireland (Reuters) - Sinn Fein, political ally of the Irish Republican Army, said Tuesday it had found a British bugging device at party offices, days before crucial talks on Northern Ireland's future. | 0 |
Where Is the Hurricane Going? Hurricane science in the new century is a mix of growing skill and persistent uncertainty, of intuition and algorithms, satellites and erasers. | 0 |
IBM Expands RFID Services for Manufacturers IBM will offer a range of new services to help industrial firms respond to retail and government pressure to implement radio-frequency identification. | 3 |
NHL Owners Plan to Lock Out Players Tomorrow Without New Deal Barring a last-minute contract settlement, National Hockey League owners plan to authorize a lockout of players tomorrow after the current labor agreement expires. | 1 |
Sudan: Thousands of IDPs Dying Every Month - WHO Between 6,000 to 10,000 of an estimated 1.2 million internally displaced persons (IDPs) in the troubled western Sudanese region of Darfur are dying every month, the World Health Organization (WHO) said on Monday. | 0 |
Chechen charged over siege RUSSIAN prosecutors charged a Chechen man with terrorism and murder in connection with the deadly hostage-taking at a school in southern Russia, the Interfax news agency reported today. | 0 |
IETF deals Microsoft #39;s e-mail proposal a setback A proposed technology for identifying the source of e-mail messages suffered a blow last week when a group within the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) established to | 3 |
Firefox heats up roundup Mozilla aims for 1 million downloads of its open-source browser in the next 10 days. Also: Common ground for Linux backers.\ | 3 |
Briefly: SanDisk to supply Samsung with miniSD roundup Plus: Hitachi unleashes 100GB notebook drives...Web services security outfits merge...Groups push on for TV on cell phones. | 3 |
ObjectWeb plans open source BPEL server ObjectWeb will begin distributing an open source BPEL server in the coming weeks, expanding the available options for a middleware technology used to link several applications and data sources into a larger business process. It will be the second open source BPEL server released in recent weeks. | 3 |
AudioFeast Launches Portable Internet Radio Service (NewsFactor) NewsFactor - AudioFeast, a two-year-old start-up company based in Mountain View, California, has launched what it claims is the first Internet radio service for portable \MP3 players. | 3 |
Blurred Images Show Spain Explosion (AP) AP - For the first time since the Madrid train bombings, blurred images taken by closed-circuit television were published Tuesday, showing three explosions and people fleeing in panic during the first seconds of the deadly March 11 attack. | 0 |
Arab League Chief: Iraq Getting Tense (AP) AP - The "gates of hell are open" in Iraq, Arab League Chief Amr Moussa said Tuesday, urging Arab leaders to make the right decisions to help their neighbor overcome the crisis. | 0 |
Nokia Signs Up for SD Memory Card (NewsFactor) NewsFactor - Nokia (NYSE: NOK) has signed a licensing agreement to support the use of Secure Digital (SD) flash memory cards in its \cell phones. | 3 |
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