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Spain's SCH Wins British Bank for \$16 Bln LONDON/MADRID (Reuters) - Spanish bank Santander claimed victory for its 8.7 billion pound (\$15.6 billion) agreed takeover of Britain's Abbey National after its most likely rival, UK bank HBOS, pulled out of the race. | 2 |
PIMCO Adviser in \$11.6 Mln SEC Settlement WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The PIMCO mutual fund group's adviser and two affiliates will pay \$11.6 million to settle U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission charges involving improper "revenue-sharing" payments to brokers, said a source familiar with the case on Wednesday. | 2 |
Tribune Won't Meet Wall St. Expectations NEW YORK (Reuters) - Publisher and broadcaster Tribune Co. <A HREF="http://www.investor.reuters.com/FullQuote.aspx?ticker=TRB.N target=/stocks/quickinfo/fullquote">TRB.N</A> on Wednesday said third-quarter earnings would lag Wall Street estimates, hurt by lower-than-expected political advertising at its television stations. | 2 |
Treasuries Sag on Signs of Resilience NEW YORK (Reuters) - Treasuries prices slipped on Wednesday after a survey of regional U.S. manufacturing showed a sharp recovery in early September, countering signs of softness elsewhere in the economy. | 2 |
Russia Rebuts U.S. Criticism of Putin's Shake-Up ASTANA, Kazakhstan (Reuters) - Russia curtly told the United States to stay out of its business Wednesday after U.S. criticism, echoed by the European Union, of President Vladimir Putin's plans for radical change that will boost Kremlin power. | 0 |
Mac OS X Tip of the Week: Custom Labels Don #146;t like the names Apple created for the colors used in the Color Labels feature? Then just create your own. Find out how on the Apple Pro/Design/ site #151; it #146;s the first of a weekly series of Mac OS X killer tips. Sep 15 | 3 |
Can You Say Cursed? Despite watching the Cubs and Red Sox surge the past two months, Michael Wilbon says they're both cursed and neither is going to the World Series. | 1 |
How to rip from vinyl or tape So, you have five hundred tapes and albums of the Beatles, Led Zeppelin, and the like, and want then on your computer? Well, you could spend hundreds of dollars replacing music you already paid for once with CDs. Or, instead of paying twenty bucks per album, you could spend twenty cents per album to convert your tapes and vinyl to CD and rip those. Read more for how. Also, the instructions below will allow you to defeat any copy protection. Period. Just substitute "cheap CD walkman" for "stereo." Caution- doing this in the United Statesor other parts of the world may be a felony. Those in less corrupt, more civilized parts of the world need not fear. Or alternately, you can make CDs of your own band. | 3 |
OPEC Ministers to Discuss Oil Production Oil ministers of the 11-member Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries meet Wednesday in Vienna to discuss the possibility of raising production, which could lower world oil prices. | 2 |
Alitalia pursues rescue talks with Italian unions MILAN : Alitalia headed into eleventh-hour talks with unions to clinch plans to avoid bankruptcy, after winning a key deal with pilots. | 2 |
For iTunes, it pays to be French com September 15, 2004, 7:35 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 |
Xerox Outlines Services Push NEW YORKA day after ditching its tagline quot;The Document Company, quot; Xerox Corp. sought to drive home the company #39;s new focus on services. | 3 |
Arab-owned Israeli team faces up to Souness #39; Newcastle But the match has another compelling storyline: the Magpies #39; little-known UEFA Cup opponent is an Israeli club, Hapoel Bnei Sakhnin, with a rare mixture of Jews and Arabs. | 1 |
McKenzie Expected to Re-Join Packers A Green Bay Packers defense that played magnificently in Monday night #39;s season-opening triumph at Carolina should get significantly better today, when cornerback Mike McKenzie is to join the | 1 |
Rays hand Sox second straight loss The Red Sox lose back-to-back games for the first time in more than five weeks, after a 5-to-2 loss to the Tampa Bay Devil Rays. Rookie Scott Kazmir outpitched Pedro Martinez to lead Tampa Bay. | 1 |
Blazers, Nets reportedly discussing Kidd trade The New Jersey Nets and the Portland Trailblazers have discussed a trade involving superstars Jason Kidd and Shareef Abdur-Rahim, according to a published Internet report. | 1 |
Airbus Sees Mobile Phone Use on Planes in 2006 LONDON (Reuters) - European planemaker Airbus reported progress on Wednesday in plans to allow passengers to use mobile phones in flight, beginning in 2006. | 3 |
North Korea's claim about mysterious blast might be true: Seoul (AFP) AFP - Communist North Korea's claim that a huge and mysterious explosion was caused by a civil engineering project might be true, according to South Korea's intelligence agency. | 0 |
Bad timing for Bibby firing If you weren #39;t convinced Southern California athletic director Mike Garrett was clueless about basketball when he hired Henry Bibby, you probably should have gotten the message when Garrett fired Bibby on Monday. | 1 |
OPEC Lifts Oil Quotas to Drop Crude Price VIENNA (Reuters) - OPEC on Wednesday lifted oil supply quotas by one million barrels a day, four percent, in a renewed bid to force down stubbornly high world crude prices. | 2 |
Mozilla Fixes Browser Bugs (PC World) PC World - Ten security flaws found in Firefox browser, Thunderbird e-mail client. | 3 |
Stocks Down on Coke Warning NEW YORK (Reuters) - U.S. stocks were lower on Wednesday after a profit warning from Coca-Cola Co. <A HREF="http://www.investor.reuters.com/FullQuote.aspx?ticker=KO.N target=/stocks/quickinfo/fullquote">KO.N</A> renewed investors' doubts about earnings growth in the second half of the year. | 2 |
Viduka #39;s double lights up Riverside IT CAN only be coincidence that the power failure that ensured the closure of concession stands throughout the Riverside Stadium brought such a ravenous display from three centre forwards whose hunger has been questioned. | 1 |
Altered Reality of Foreign Investing Globalization's changed how the world's markets interact -- and how your portfolio fares. | 2 |
Ukraine Rivals OK Vote Reforms for Rematch (AP) AP - Ukraine's political rivals agreed early Tuesday on legislation to ensure a fair vote during the rerun later this month of the fraud-ridden presidential runoff but remained divided on constitutional amendments trimming presidential powers. | 0 |
Hurricane Ivan Roars Toward Gulf Coast NEW ORLEANS - Stragglers streamed toward higher ground Wednesday on highways turned into one-way evacuation routes and surf started eroding beaches as Hurricane Ivan roared toward the Gulf Coast with 135 mph wind and its outer bands darkened the sky. Ivan could cause significant damage no matter where it strikes, as hurricane-force wind extended up to 105 miles out from the center... | 0 |
Kerry: Bush Policies Full of Bad Choices DETROIT - Democratic presidential candidate John Kerry attacked the Bush administration as the "excuse presidency" on Wednesday, charging that the president stood by while jobs disappeared and the middle class lost ground. "This president has created more excuses than jobs... | 0 |
Lion Nathan #39;s \$200m sell-off triumph Australia #39;s second-largest brewer yesterday announced an agreement to sell its three Yangtze River Delta breweries to an SABMiller-China Resources Enterprises joint venture for \$219 million. | 2 |
JP Morgan ends IBM outsource deal JP Morgan Chase amp; Co. said Wednesday it was canceling a \$5 billion outsourcing deal with IBM Corp. and planned to rehire about 4,000 workers who had been transferred to IBM under the pact. | 2 |
PacifiCare #39;s American Medical merger worth \$502M PacifiCare Health Systems Inc. will pay \$502 million to buy all outstanding shares of common stock of American Medical Security. Under the terms of the merger agreement, Cypress-based PacifiCare will pay \$32. | 2 |
Drogba the destroyer as Chelsea fire early JOSE MOURINHO began his latest campaign as he finished the last one - a winner - as his new club Chelsea thrashed French strugglers Paris Saint Germain 3-0 in Paris in their opening match of the tournament on Tuesday. | 1 |
Villeneuve back in frame as Trulli departs Renault THE Renault team have parted company with Italian driver Jarno Trulli with three races in the 2004 world championship still to go. | 1 |
Ponting doesn #39;t think much of Kiwis or winning #39;myth #39; RICKY PONTING believes the game #39;s watchers have fallen for the quot;myth quot; that New Zealand know how to rattle Australia. | 1 |
Pakistan cruise to victory Pakistan today continued the trend for one-sided matches in the opening week of the ICC Champions Trophy by completing an emphatic victory over Kenya between the showers at Edgbaston. | 1 |
Blackburn move in on Hughes The Football Association of Wales have confirmed that they have received an approach for Mark Hughes from Blackburn. Wales manager Hughes yesterday revealed, via his representative, that he is keen to return | 1 |
UPDATE 2-Top seed Moya stunned by qualifier in Beijing Top seed Carlos Moya got blown off court by a French teenager playing his first ATP Tour match at the rain-it China Open on Wednesday. | 1 |
NAC Breda #39;s Tamas Peto banned for 10 games for doping NAC Breda won #39;t appeal a 10-game ban on Hungarian midfielder Tamas Peto by the Dutch Soccer Association as punishment for alleged doping, the team said Wednesday. | 1 |
Police check #39;curse #39; on Sharon ISRAELI police have begun investigating several death threats made against Prime Minister Ariel Sharon in recent days over his plan to evacuate Jewish settlements from the Gaza Strip. | 0 |
Losing sight of the countryside Migration to urban centres is exacerbating problems in the countryside, the World Urban Forum is told. | 3 |
J.P. Morgan cancels IBM outsourcing contract The termination of the \$5 billion deal stands in opposition to a trend toward more IT outsourcing. | 3 |
Nokia, NEC test IP multimedia interoperability Two industry heavyweights have completed interoperability tests of a new technology designed to drive the convergence of voice, data, and video services over wireless and fixed infrastructure based on the Internet Protocol. | 3 |
Empire State survey climbs to 28.3 from August #39;s 13.2 WASHINGTON (CBS.MW) -- Factory activity in the New York region accelerated in September, the Federal Reserve Bank of New York said Wednesday. | 2 |
IMF says markets at most resilient in 3 years The global financial system is at its most resilient since the equity bubble burst in 2001, the International Monetary Fund said on Wednesday, despite rising interest rates, heightened security and higher oil prices. | 2 |
Software bug raises spectre of #39;JPEG of death #39; Flawed software code used by numerous Microsoft applications to render images mean that a specially constructed image file could hijack a computer or spread a virus. | 3 |
Nestle Waters ponders Perrier sale ... or outsourcing (AFP) AFP - Nestle Waters said it might sell Perrier, the iconic French mineral water, while keeping options including a mooted outsourcing on tap. | 0 |
News: World's largest ID theft felon faces 14 years' jail A former New York computer help desk technician yesterday pleaded guilty to playing a key part in what prosecutors reckon is the largest identity theft case to date.\ | 3 |
Lebanese boycott mobile phones for three hours in protest at high costs (AFP) AFP - Professional bodies and trade unions vowed to continue actions to force the government to cut mobile phone rates following a third boycott of cellular lines, reckoned to be among the costliest in the world. | 3 |
Sudanese Peace Talks Hit Impasse (AP) AP - Peace talks between the Sudanese government and two rebel factions from the troubled Darfur region hit an impasse, and the sides agreed to break for at least three weeks before resuming efforts, one rebel faction said Wednesday. | 0 |
Mickelson Says Equipment Change Won't Hurt Ryder Cup BLOOMFIELD HILLS, Michigan (Reuters) - Masters champion Phil Mickelson defended his commitment to the U.S. Ryder Cup cause on Wednesday as scrutiny over his decision to switch equipment before golf's biggest team event intensified. | 1 |
Oracle Shares Gain Amid Tech Decline CHICAGO (Reuters) - Shares of software maker Oracle Corp. <A HREF="http://www.investor.reuters.com/FullQuote.aspx?ticker=ORCL.O target=/stocks/quickinfo/fullquote">ORCL.O</A> rose as much as 8 percent in early trading on Wednesday, a day after the company posted strong quarterly profit fueled by steady demand for its flagship database products. | 2 |
Windows 2000 to get its last major update Microsoft will not be developing a fifth service pack for Windows 2000, but will issue a single security update called Update Rollup, which is due in mid-2005. | 3 |
Maryland Court Rejects Electronic-Voting Challenge (Reuters) Reuters - Maryland's highest court has\rejected a challenge to the state's electronic voting system\and upheld a ruling that touchscreen-style voting machines\provide a reasonable level of ballot security. | 0 |
Top Seed Moya Stunned by Qualifier in Beijing BEIJING (Reuters) - Top seed Carlos Moya got blown off court by a French teenager playing his first ATP Tour match at the rain-hit China Open on Wednesday. | 1 |
Montgomerie Multi-Tasks in Europe's Cause BLOOMFIELD HILLS, Michigan (Reuters) - Colin Montgomerie is playing team leader, confidant and chief cheerleader to Europe's Ryder Cup squad this week -- and he is thriving on the challenge. | 1 |
BA to Axe Almost 1,000 Heathrow Flights LONDON (Reuters) - British Airways Plc, Europe's second-biggest airline, is to cancel almost 1,000 flights out of London's Heathrow airport in the next three months to ease the congestion that led to travel disruptions. | 2 |
Martha Stewart Asks to Begin Prison Sentence as Soon as Possible NEW YORK - Martha Stewart (search) announced Wednesday at a press conferecne that had decided to surrender for prison as soon as possible, citing the need quot;to put this nightmare behind me. | 2 |
Jpmorgan Chase and Ibm Announce Changes to Technology <b>...</b> NEW YORK amp; ARMONK, NY - (BUSINESS WIRE) -ept. 15, 2004 -organ Chase amp; Co. (NYSE: JPM) and IBM today announced JPMorgan Chases plans to reintegrate the previously outsourced portions of its technology | 2 |
Coca-Cola warns second-half earnings will fall short of <b>...</b> The Coca-Cola Co. says its third-quarter per-share results will drop at least 24 per cent because of poor weather in Europe and problems executing its business strategy in North America. | 2 |
Kerr-McGee to stop Savannah #39;s sulfate pigment production Kerr-McGee Corp. plans to shut down its Savannah, Ga., pigment sulfate production, resulting in charges of \$75 million to \$85 million in the third quarter. | 2 |
Update 2: Reynolds American Issues Earnings Guidance Reynolds American Inc., created by the recent merger of RJ Reynolds Tobacco Co. and the US businesses of Brown amp; Williamson Tobacco Corp. | 2 |
Delta pilots agree to talk on retirements Delta Air Lines #39; pilot union has agreed to negotiate the early retirement issue that the company says could lead it into bankruptcy if it is not settled by the end of this month. | 2 |
FUTURES MOVERS The Gulf Coast girded Wednesday for the arrival of Hurricane Ivan, as petroleum and natural-gas producers shut in output from offshore installations in anticipation of the category four storm. | 2 |
OLED screens brighten Sony handhelds Sony may be puling its Clie handhelds out of the US and Europe, but that doesn #39;t mean the company has lost all faith in the handheld market. | 3 |
iTunes pricing unfair, says British consumer group British consumer watchdog group Consumers #39; Association, publishers of Which? magazines and books, on Wednesday announced that they #39;ve written to the Office of Fair Trading (OFT) alleging that Apple may be | 3 |
Another Patch Job from Microsoft SEATTLE -- Microsoft released a patch for its latest quot;critical quot; rated security flaw affecting its Windows, Office and developer tools software programs, the company said Tuesday. | 3 |
Visual Studio Aims At Structuring The Software Development Process Visual Studio 2005 Team System will try to include features that make it more likely that what the developers know in their hearts also is visible to managers. | 3 |
The Beatles Sue Apple Computer Giants Apple are facing the biggest legal payout in history as they once again battle their courtroom nemesis, also named Apple. | 3 |
Mayhem, for fun I admit to being skeptical that the Teen-rated Burnout 3: Takedown, from Criterion Games and Electronic Arts, was going to be just another street-racing title. | 3 |
Three Nacional players suspended after nightclub altercation Lisbon, Portugal (Sports Network) - CD Nacional suspended three players who were arrested following an altercation at a Portuguese nightclub early Monday morning. | 1 |
Dulko reaches quarters; Sugiyama, Rubin bounced in Bali openers Bali, Indonesia (Sports Network) - Seventh-seeded Argentine Gisela Dulko moved into the quarterfinals, while third-seeded Japanese Ai Sugiyama and 2003 Bali runner-up Chanda Rubin were a pair of opening-round losers Wednesday at the \$225,000 Wismilak | 1 |
Report: Decision could come today Art Howe has been given the option to leave as Mets manager immediately or manage until then end of the season and then be fired, a high-ranking club official has told Michael Kay of ESPN Radio 1050 in New York. | 1 |
Iran May Curb Nuke Work (CBS/AP) Iran has agreed in principle to temporarily stop some suspect activities that its critics allege are meant to make nuclear weapons, as it seeks to blunt censure at an upcoming UN meeting, diplomats said Tuesday. | 0 |
Susilo well ahead in Indonesian presidential race: opinion polls By Channel NewsAsia #39;s Indonesia Bureau Chief Haseenah Koyakutty. JAKARTA : Former army general Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono is being tipped to win next Monday #39;s Indonesian presidential election by a handsome margin. | 0 |
DUP sets out demands ahead of Kent talks Visual proof of IRA decommissioning; a list of all IRA weapons destroyed; a complete end to republican paramilitary activity, and fundamental changes to the Good Friday agreement are all demands being made by the Rev. | 0 |
Martha Stewart Asks Judge Jail Me Now (Reuters) Reuters - Lifestyle guru Martha Stewart said on\Wednesday she wants to serve her prison sentence for lying over\a suspicious stock sale as soon as possible so she can put her\"nightmare" behind her. | 2 |
UK Shares Including HBOS Rise; Abbey National, Cadbury Fall UK shares including HBOS Plc advanced after the country #39;s fourth-biggest bank dropped out of the running for Abbey National Plc. | 2 |
Update 1: JPMorgan to Rehire Outsourced Workers JPMorgan Chase amp; Co. says it will rehire 4,000 workers whose jobs it had outsourced to IBM, bucking a corporate trend in information technology. | 2 |
Update 4: Alitalia Holds Crucial Talks With Unions Near-bankrupt Alitalia held crucial contract negotiations with unions representing flight attendants and ground staff Wednesday in a last-minute attempt to save the state-controlled airline from collapse. | 2 |
Kerr-McGee to Cut Production at Plant Kerr-McGee Chemical LLC said Wednesday that it will stop producing titanium dioxide pigment sulfate at its Savannah, Ga., plant by the end of September, affecting a quarter of the work force there. | 2 |
Jets Re-Sign Guard Brent Smith (AP) AP - The New York Jets re-signed guard Brent Smith on Wednesday, less than a week after the team cut him. | 1 |
Assad and Mubarak call for total Lebanese sovereignty (AFP) AFP - Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak and his Syrian counterpart, Bashar al-Assad, called for Lebanon's sovereignty to be respected, rejecting international condemnation of Damascus' interference in its smaller neighbour's politics. | 0 |
Consumer watchdog hits out at iTunes pricing The Consumers #39; Association (CA) has accused Apple of taking too big a bite out of UK music lovers #39; money. It has asked the Office of Fair (OFT) to investigate the potential breach of competition law. | 3 |
Mozilla Previews FireFox 1.0 (Article Central) The Mozilla Foundation is set to release a preview of FireFox 1.0, the latest version of the open source Web browser. | 3 |
Bears Eyeing Playoffs After Beating Vikes (AP) AP - The day after Chad Hutchinson pumped some life into their offense and their season, the Chicago Bears were actually talking about making the playoffs #151; despite a 5-7 record. | 1 |
Vieira: #39;We #39;ve learned a lot #39; Patrick Vieira declared Arsenal have grown up in European terms after coming of age in their hard-fought Champions League victory against PSV Eindhoven. | 1 |
Oracle Shares Gain Amid Tech Decline (Reuters) Reuters - Shares of software maker Oracle Corp.\ rose as much as 8 percent in early trading on\Wednesday, a day after the company posted strong quarterly\profit fueled by steady demand for its flagship database\products. | 3 |
Italy's Garbin Upsets Rubin in Indonesia (AP) AP - Italy's Tathiana Garbin upset American Chanda Rubin 6-1, 6-4 Wednesday in the first round of the Wismilak International. | 1 |
Martha Stewart Asks Judge Jail Me Now NEW YORK (Reuters) - Lifestyle guru Martha Stewart said on Wednesday she wants to serve her prison sentence for lying over a suspicious stock sale as soon as possible so she can put her "nightmare" behind her. | 2 |
Industrial Output Growth Nearly Stalls WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. industrial output growth nearly stalled last month as production cuts at mines and utilities nearly swamped a solid performance in factories, a report from the Federal Reserve showed on Wednesday. | 2 |
Dollar Rallies Vs Euro After Data Gains NEW YORK (Reuters) - The dollar rallied across the board on Wednesday in a technical rebound after two U.S. economic reports prompted dealers to unwind large bets against the currency. | 2 |
Jacques Is Back, a Day After Ralf SILVERSTONE, England (Reuters) - Former champion Jacques Villeneuve trumped Ralf Schumacher's return from injury with Formula One's comeback of the year on Wednesday. | 1 |
Judge Denies Bush Effort to Speed Ruling (AP) AP - A federal judge on Wednesday denied a request to force the Federal Election Commission to act on complaints by President Bush's campaign against anti-Bush groups spending millions of dollars on ads in the presidential race. | 0 |
Martha Stewart Asks to Begin Sentence Martha Stewart said Wednesday she has decided to surrender for prison as soon as possible, citing the need "to put this nightmare behind me, both personally and professionally." | 2 |
Three Decapitated Corpses Found North of Baghdad BAIJI, Iraq (Reuters) - The decapitated bodies of three men, their heads strapped to their backs, were found dumped in bags by a roadside north of Baghdad Wednesday, Iraqi police and U.S. officials said. | 0 |
Musharraf to retain his army post Pakistan's president is to stay on as head of the army, despite an earlier pledge to stand down by January. | 0 |
Foreigner killed in Saudi capital A foreign man is shot dead near a shopping complex in the Saudi Arabian capital Riyadh. | 0 |
Wet weather hits Coca-Cola sales Coca-Cola, the world's largest maker of soft drinks, issues a profit warning, partly blaming the impact of cold and wet weather in northern Europe. | 0 |
Stewart Ends Appeal Effort, and Asks to Serve Sentence Soon Martha Stewart announced today that she had decided to begin her prison sentence "as soon as possible" for lying about a stock trade. | 2 |
Yahoo! Tunes In to Musicmatch The portal giant rounds out its online music offerings and gets a backdoor to the desktop. | 2 |
Hurricane Ivan Roars Toward Gulf Coast NEW ORLEANS - Stragglers streamed toward higher ground Wednesday on highways turned into one-way evacuation routes and pounding surf started eroding beaches as Hurricane Ivan roared toward the Gulf Coast with 135 mph wind. Ivan could cause significant damage no matter where it strikes, as hurricane-force wind extended up to 105 miles out from the center... | 0 |
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