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Zimbabwe Turns Back Clock After Turmoil (AP) AP - Things have gotten so bad in Zimbabwe that people have taken to telling a wry joke: "What did we have before candles?" The answer: "Electricity." Zimbabwe once boasted one of Sub-Saharan Africa's most vibrant economies, but four years of turmoil have erased that progress. | 0 |
North Korea Looks to Delay Nuclear Talks (AP) AP - North Korea is looking for an extended delay in resuming negotiations over its nuclear weapons program and even told China there was no point in continuing the six-sided talks at all, a senior U.S. official says. | 0 |
Senate Wants Intel Chief With Budget Say WASHINGTON - The committee writing the Senate's intelligence reorganization plan is recommending creation of a strong national intelligence director with spending power, while leaving the Pentagon in charge of some military spy agencies. Sen... | 0 |
Canon, Toshiba team up on flat screen SEDs MIGHTY COMBINES Canon and Toshiba said they will create a joint venture next month to develop, produce and sell surface conduction electron emitter display (SED) panels. | 2 |
20,000 rally against Hardie MORE than 20,000 workers and victims rallied across Australia today, pledging to force James Hardie Industries to meet its responsibilities to those suffering asbestos related diseases. | 2 |
Lion Nathan to sell Chinese business Trans-Tasman beer and wine group Lion Nathan is selling its Chinese beer business to the second largest brewer in China for \$US154 million, or \$A219 million. | 2 |
New Windows Flaw Targets JPEG Images On Tuesday, Microsoft warned its customers that several of its products are vulnerable to a flaw in the way they handle JPEG graphics images. | 3 |
Novell Comes Out Swinging Against Microsoft with Linux At the BrainShare Conference in Barcelona , Spain , Novell chairman and CEO Jack Messman talked up Linux and renewed his company #39;s attack on rival Microsoft. | 3 |
SF #39;bringing bug device to talks #39; Sinn Fein has said its delegation will bring the listening device found in its Belfast headquarters to Leeds Castle in Kent where the political parties will assemble for talks. | 0 |
Flaws threaten Windows, Linux PCs At least a dozen Microsoft software applications and operating systems affected. Also: The talking worm. | 3 |
HBOS decides not to bid for Abbey UK bank HBOS has decided not to make a bid for Abbey, the bank has said. Many observers had expected HBOS to make a play for Abbey, which had agreed to a 8. | 2 |
Court May Decide Fate Of NZ #39;s Vector Float, NGC Bid WELLINGTON (Dow Jones)--A High Court ruling later Wednesday may decide the fate of the Auckland Energy Consumer Trust #39;s plan to partially float its fully-owned Vector Ltd. | 2 |
Trash Your Xerox If there were a contest for world #39;s worst corporate slogan, quot;Technology/Document Management/Consulting Services quot; would definitely make the top 10. | 3 |
Mourinho hands Chelsea #39;s Drogba a day off Chelsea boss Jose Mourinho was happy to give Didier Drogba the day off after his two-goal salvo against PSG last night. Drogba, 26, is due to collect the Marc-Vivien Foe award for the best African Footballer | 1 |
SportsNetwork Game Preview (Sports Network) - Johan Santana continues his push for the American League Cy Young Award, as he takes the ball for the Minnesota Twins in the opener of a three-game series against the visiting Chicago White Sox. | 1 |
Dodgers Defeat Padres 6-3 (AP) AP - Jose Lima pitched into the seventh inning, Jayson Werth homered for the third game in a row and the Los Angeles Dodgers beat the San Diego Padres 6-3 Tuesday night. | 1 |
Kerry Targets Bush Economic Policy as 'Fiscal Mess' (Reuters) Reuters - Sen. John Kerry said on Wednesday the\United States needs to make the "right choices" on the economy,\and faulted President Bush for blaming others and offering\excuses for the White House's own failed economic policies. | 0 |
S.Korean Spies Say Building Work Behind North Blast SEOUL (Reuters) - A huge explosion in North Korea last week may have been due to a combination of demolition work for a power plant and atmospheric clouds, South Korea's spy agency said on Wednesday. | 0 |
Four executed in China for fraud China's crackdown on white-collar crime sees four people executed for defrauding two of the country's biggest banks. | 2 |
Delhi and Dhaka in critical talks Senior interior ministry officials are due to meet in Dhaka amidst a souring of ties between India and Bangladesh. | 0 |
Tokyo Edge: The Latest in Home Theater Do-it-all convergence devices, plus a MiniDisc player, both tiny and high-end cameras, and big LCD TV debut this fall. | 3 |
HBOS won #39;t bid for Abbey National HBOS has dropped plans to bid for Abbey National, dampening hopes of a challenge to Spanish bank Santander #39;s agreed 8.8 billion pound takeover of Abbey. | 2 |
Daewoo Heavy Wins \$51 Mil. Order Daewoo Heavy Industries amp; Machinery said Wednesday that it has won orders in the United States worth \$51 million to supply manufacturing machines during the International Manufacturing Technology Show 2004, which began last Wednesday for an eight-day run | 2 |
Linux Standard Base Launched The Free Standards Group has released Linux Standard Base 2.0, a new Linux standard that has gained the backing of most major Linux suppliers. | 3 |
More flaws found in Microsoft Windows The giant has released a patch so that Windows doesn #39;t let in hackers when it handles JPEG graphics formats. The flaw means that attackers can create an image file that will automatically run dodgy code, dump | 3 |
Still plenty, way too many, good seats available for Bonds On a balmy September summer evening at Miller Park, Barry Bonds, arguably the best player there ever was, had a chance to go where only two men in baseball history had gone before. | 1 |
Villeneuve to race Renault Jacques Villeneuve will almost certainly race the final three grands prix of the season in a blue and yellow Renault. The out-of-work #39;97 world champion, dumped by BAR late last year, is at Silverstone on Wednesday to test Jarno Trulli #39;s R24 car. | 1 |
Sox suffer setback: Tampa rookie Kazmir shuts down Boston With a huge three-game series against the Yankees set to begin Friday in the Bronx, the Red Sox could hardly be blamed for viewing this week #39;s three-game set | 1 |
Howe Talks Job Security With Mets Owner, GM Manager Art Howe met with Mets owner Fred Wilpon and GM Jim Duquette yesterday, one day after saying that if the team planned to fire him, it should do it now. | 1 |
US, Europe Differ on How to Rebuke Iran VIENNA, Austria Sept. 15, 2004 - Differences between the United States and Europe over how firmly to deal with Iran and its suspect nuclear program have resulted in the European Union pushing recommendations that ignore American suggestions. | 0 |
Anwar Ibrahim to seek royal pardon Malaysia #39;s former deputy prime minister Anwar Ibrahim will reportedly seek royal pardon to clear his name of a corruption conviction. | 0 |
Deadline passes with no word on Australian hostages in Iraq SYDNEY - A deadline set by supposed hostage-takers in Iraq for Australian Prime Minister John Howard to announce a withdrawal of Australian forces from their country passed Wednesday with no announcement by Howard and no word on the hostages. | 0 |
9 killed in clashes between Pakistani forces, militants At least nine were killed Tuesday in the clashes between Pakistani security forces and militants in the South Waziristan tribal area bordering Afghanistan, Daily Times reported Wednesday. | 0 |
Signs Point to Hurricane's Retaining Strength Weather models and satellite measurements of ocean heat all indicated Tuesday that Hurricane Ivan was likely to remain an extremely dangerous storm as it roared ashore. | 3 |
New Priorities in Environment The Bush administration has accelerated resource development on public lands and has pushed to eliminate regulatory hurdles for military and industrial projects. | 3 |
Six killed in Kashmir violence, police break up protests (AFP) AFP - Indian troops shot dead four suspected Islamic militants in revolt-racked Indian Kashmir while rebels killed a soldier and a civilian in separate shootings, police said. | 0 |
China Party Chief Rules Out Democracy BEIJING (Reuters) - Chinese Communist Party chief Hu Jintao called for parliament to take a stronger watchdog role on the eve of a key leadership meeting but ruled out Western-style democracy for China in a sign any reform would be incremental. | 0 |
Cannabis may help combat cancer The chemical in cannabis that produces a high may help to combat cancer, research suggests. | 0 |
Lion sells China breweries TRANS-Tasman beer and wine group Lion Nathan is selling its Chinese beer business to the second largest brewer in China for \$US154 million (\$219 million). | 2 |
The Homer, by Powell Motors Have you ever seen that Wendy #39;s commercial with the guy who goes around advertising for Wendy #39;s because he loves their food so much, even though he is not actually a Wendy #39;s employee? | 2 |
Software tackles digital photo proliferation SEATTLE - Now that digital cameras have overtaken film cameras in sales, users are beginning to encounter a familiar problem -- what to do with the bulging image files and folders filling up computer hard drives? | 2 |
Nokia overcomes SD Card phobia <a href="http://www.technewsworld.com/story/Nokia-Adopts-SD-Card-Tech-into-Storage-Portfolio-36603.html">Nokia Adopts SD Card Tech into Storage Portfolio</a> <font size=-1 color=#6f6f6f><nobr>TechNewsWorld</nobr> | 3 |
Apple could pay more to Apple The row has been brewing almost as long as Steve Job #39;s computer outfit existed. In 1978 Apple Records sued Jobs and got an agreement that Apple Computer would never enter the music business. | 3 |
Singapore outsources to HP THE SINGAPORE Government has decided to reverse the world-wide outsourcing trend and ship some work to HP. Singapore #39;s ministry of manpower has transferred IT staff to Hewlett Packard under an outsourcing contract. | 3 |
Tennis: Spadea, Fish advance but three other seeds fall DELRAY BEACH, United States : Top seed Vince Spadea rallied to join second-seeded fellow American Mardy Fish in the second round of the ATP International Championship here. | 1 |
UNDATED: points each. Tina Thompson scored 27 points and Sheryl Swoopes added 15 for Houston, which ended a four-game losing streak and kept its playoff hopes. | 1 |
Photographers in Princess Di Case Absolved A Paris appeals court on Tuesday upheld the acquittals of three photographers accused of invasion of privacy after they took pictures of Princess Diana and Dodi Fayed at the scene of their deadly crash. | 0 |
Xerox wants to move away from Xeroxing THE BOSS of Xerox says she wants to move the company away from just photocopying and become an information services outfit. Xerox chairman and CEO Anne Mulcahy says she is prepared to buy consultancies in a bid to make her cunning plans come true. | 3 |
The United States is favored to win the Ryder Cup Once again, it appears the United States is the favorite -- at least on paper -- to win the 35th Ryder Cup matches, which unfold this weekend at Oakland Hills in suburban Detroit. | 1 |
Israel Offers Cash to Jewish Settlers Israel is offering cash advances of up to 115-thousand dollars to Jewish settlers willing to leave the Gaza Strip and West Bank. It #39;s the first concrete step toward carrying out Prime Minister Ariel Sharon #39;s contentious pullout plan. | 0 |
Britain slips down education league table The proportion of youngsters who drop out of the British education system is one of the highest in the developed world, according to an international study published yesterday. | 0 |
Tokyo Edge: The Latest in Home Theater (PC World) PC World - Do-it-all convergence devices, plus a MiniDisc player, both tiny and high-end cameras, and big LCD TV debut this fall. | 3 |
Rangers Defeat Athletics 12-9 (AP) AP - Alfonso Soriano had three hits and two RBIs as the Rangers responded with their bats to beat the Oakland Athletics 12-9 Tuesday, a night after Texas reliever Frank Francisco threw a plastic chair into the stands and broke a woman's nose. | 1 |
Marion Barry Victorious in Comeback Bid (AP) AP - Former Washington Mayor Marion Barry, infamous for being caught smoking crack on an FBI videotape, has made it back to city hall #151; again. | 0 |
OPEC wrestles over output increase as hurricane, Iraq attacks lift <b>...</b> OPEC members were divided yesterday on whether their output should be increased in a bid to boost global supply that might cause oil prices to drop. | 2 |
HBOS won #39;t bid for Abbey National HBOS has decided against bidding for Abbey National, dampening hopes of a challenge to Spanish bank Santander #39;s agreed 8.8 billion pound takeover and hitting the target #39;s shares. | 2 |
Amvescap cuts interim dividend by half Anglo-US fund firm Amvescap has announced a 50 percent cut to its interim dividend but says it plans to return to a progressive dividend policy for 2005 onwards. | 2 |
Boston-area tech jobs decline Greater Boston ranks third among top information technology labor markets that have lost a significant number of tech jobs, according to a study released yesterday. | 2 |
Three Rivals To Release Networking Devices That Target Convergence <b>...</b> Networking rivals Cisco, 3Com and Enterasys all will release a series of products this month designed to upgrade the infrastructures of businesses of all sizes. | 3 |
Before hiatus, Canada wins The hockey season started early this year and, after two entertaining weeks of the World Cup, it ends for who knows how long. Despite the impending announcement of an NHL lockout today | 1 |
Madritsch, M #39;s deflate Angels; Ichiro up to 232 The reasons for Mariners pitcher Bobby Madritsch #39;s remarkable rebirth from baseball #39;s scrap heap to mound renown become more apparent with each outing. | 1 |
Giambis ecstatic to be in Yanks starting lineup After Jason Giambi put on his gray No. 25 Yankees road jersey yesterday afternoon, he breathed a sigh of a relief. He was back in the majors. | 1 |
Villeneuve test could lead to F-1 ride with Renault Jacques Villeneuve will test for Renault today and tomorrow and the former Formula One champion could be back racing as early as next week. | 1 |
Special to ESPN.com MILWAUKEE -- There are easier things to do than to celebrate Barry Bonds when he isn #39;t actually making history. But at least you don #39;t have to worry about losing your voice or burning up the batteries in your tape recorder. | 1 |
Herd #39;s Pruett apologizes for #39;Mandingos #39; remark Marshall University football coach Bob Pruett has apologized for using a term some consider a racial slur, a newspaper reported. In his weekly news conference leading up to Saturday #39;s game, Pruett called the | 1 |
Turkey Backs Off Plan to Outlaw Adultery Turkey #39;s leaders distanced themselves from a proposal to outlaw adultery after the opposition came out against it and western governments made clear enacting the law would | 0 |
Blurry Image Might Be First Picture of Exoplanet (Reuters) Reuters - The image of a blurry red ball near\a failed star just might be the first picture ever snapped of a\planet outside our solar system, an astronomer who helped find\the object said on Monday. | 3 |
Dutch Find Greater Threat to Humans from Bird Flu (Reuters) Reuters - Dutch scientists have determined bird\flu can spread more easily among humans than was previously\thought, researchers said Tuesday. | 3 |
Russia Rejects U.S. Criticism of Planned Reforms ASTANA (Reuters) - Russia on Wednesday curtly rejected U.S. criticism of sweeping political changes proposed by President Vladimir Putin, telling Washington to stay out of its business. | 0 |
Israel Kills 5 Palestinian Militants in W.Bank Raid NABLUS, West Bank (Reuters) - Israel killed five Palestinian militants in a West Bank raid on Wednesday, keeping up pressure on armed factions as Prime Minister Ariel Sharon's plan for a partial pullout from occupied lands moved forward. | 0 |
Opec considers fresh output rise A meeting of the oil producers' group in Vienna will consider whether to boost output to rein in price rises, Saudi officials say. | 0 |
Rays are spoilsports Kevin Millar, at the center of a scrum of New York media types seeking some back-page material for the weekend Red Sox-Yankees series, insisted before last night's first pitch that his team's focus had not strayed ahead to the pinstripers. | 1 |
Freezing point is near The curtain is set to come down on the 2004-05 National Hockey League season before it ever goes up. | 1 |
No winners in blame game The National Hockey League stumbles into a new era tonight when the clock strikes 12. Away go the sticks and pucks, and out come the sticks and stones. | 1 |
Obstacles? Sutton keeps on truckin' Ever since she was a little girl, buzzing around her father's knees while he worked on his race cars at the family garage, Kelly Sutton dreamed about being a racer. Just like her daddy and granddaddy. | 1 |
Orlovsky does his level best The thought of going to Boston College, whose football camp Dan Orlovsky attended for three years when he was in high school, was dashed when the Eagles did not offer him a scholarship. | 1 |
Mussina muzzles Royals Mike Mussina pitched three-hit ball for eight innings and struck out a season-high 11, leading the New York Yankees over the Royals, 4-0, last night in Kansas City. | 1 |
Minor leaguers to be honored The Red Sox will honor their top minor league players in a ceremony before tonight's game against the Devil Rays. Among those cited will be a player in a Sox uniform -- outfielder Adam Hyzdu, named Triple A Pawtucket's Player of the Year after leading the International League with a .413 on-base percentage. | 1 |
Probe can't rule out Iran atomic bomb plan, UN watchdog says VIENNA -- After two years of investigating Iran's atomic program, the UN nuclear watchdog still cannot rule out that Tehran has a secret atom bomb project as Washington insists, the agency's chief said yesterday. | 0 |
Not all sweet for Lou Before last night's game against the Red Sox, Tampa Bay's Lou Piniella didn't want to talk about speculation that he will | 1 |
McKenzie, Packers ready to talk Green Bay Packers cornerback Mike McKenzie's holdout could end soon. quot;All I know is I'm meeting with Mike tomorrow at 8 o'clock, quot; coach-general manager Mike Sherman said last night. | 1 |
Thornton has big assist in finishing the Finns When single-elimination play began in the World Cup of Hockey, Joe Thornton was converted by Team Canada coach Pat Quinn from a high-scoring pivotman to a checking center. His assignment was to shut down the other teams' top combinations. With his size, strength, and hockey sense, Thornton parlayed his new role into a crucial one that helped Canada ... | 1 |
BC gives Skinner 2-year extension After guiding the Boston College men's basketball program to 80 victories and four postseason appearances (including three NCAA berths) in the last four seasons, Al Skinner yesterday was rewarded with a two-year contract extension that runs through 2009-10. | 1 |
No airing of the pairings It is a team game, this Ryder Cup stuff that will commence Friday at Oakland Hills Country Club. So what are the teams? For the Americans, captain Hal Sutton isn't saying. | 1 |
Mild Seven Renault F1 Team and Jarno Trulli announce early separation The Mild Seven Renault F1 Team and Jarno Trulli today announced that the Italian driver has been released with immediate effect. | 1 |
The Chechen's Story: From Unrivaled Guerrilla Leader to the Terror of Russia The man accused of plotting the terror attacks in Russia was once capable of restraint. | 0 |
LVMH profits rise on retail revival LVMH, the world #39;s biggest luxury goods company, has beaten forecasts with a 14-percent rise in first-half operating profits, helped by a rebound in retailing and strong sales at Louis Vuitton. | 2 |
Magellan assets fall \$496m in August Fidelity Investments #39; flagship equity fund, Magellan, saw assets slip about \$496 million in August, to \$61.9 billion, primarily a result of investor withdrawals. | 2 |
Yahoo Buys Musicmatch for \$160 Million In a bid to compete with Apple and Microsoft in the online music services market, online giant Yahoo announced yesterday that it would purchase MusicMatch for \$160 million. | 3 |
Nokia Widens Storage with SD Cards Timo Poikolainen, vice president of technology marketing at Nokia, said quot;This is a natural step in our digital convergence strategy to adopt leading technologies to launch new, compelling mobile devices and services. | 3 |
No airing of the pairings It is a team game, this Ryder Cup stuff that will commence Friday at Oakland Hills Country Club. So what are the teams? For the Americans, captain Hal Sutton isn #39;t saying. | 1 |
MLB investigating Oakland fracas com. The Rangers issued a statement from owner Tom Hicks on Tuesday apologizing for the event. quot;On behalf of the Texas Rangers, I want to apologize for the conduct of some members of our club last night in Oakland, quot; said Hicks. | 1 |
WENGER: WE #39;RE HAUNTED BY EURO FAILURE ARSENE WENGER admitted Arsenal are still haunted by their Champions League failures after they bored their way to a nervous victory at Highbury. | 1 |
Benson #39;s four-hit shutout ups ante for contract Kris Benson continued to do his best negotiating on the mound last night, throwing a four-hit shutout as the Mets rolled over the Braves, 7-0, at Shea Stadium. | 1 |
Childbirth deaths a crisis, #39; UN says While reproductive planning and women #39;s equality have improved substantially over the past decade, says a United Nations report, world population will increase from 6.4 billion today to 8.9 billion by 2050, with the 50 poorest countries tripling in | 0 |
European Shares Tread Water LONDON (Reuters) - European shares traded sideways on Wednesday but banks were a bright spot as Britain's HBOS rallied on relief it would not be wading into a bidding war for domestic peer Abbey. | 2 |
US Treasuries Drift Lower, Data in Sight LONDON (Reuters) - U.S. Treasury prices drifted lower on Wednesday in generally subdued trade, with some focus on the day's economic numbers. | 2 |
Tokyo Stocks End Lower TOKYO (Reuters) - Tokyo's Nikkei average fell 1.21 percent on Wednesday as investors took a breather after the market's recent rises and sold shares of gainers including tech issues such as Canon Inc. | 2 |
US to purchase flu vaccine from Canada, Germany The US government is planning to purchase 5 million doses of flu vaccine from Canadian and German plants to deal with their shortages, the Canadian Broadcast Corporation (CBC) reported Monday. | 2 |
Harvard fund soars 21.1 percent The Harvard University endowment yesterday reported a 21.1 percent gain on its investments for fiscal 2004, marking its best year since 2000. But the nation's largest university fund also issued a sober forecast that returns over the next decade will be dramatically lower than in the past 10 years. | 2 |
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