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In-flight mobile calls approved Plane maker Airbus has reported progress in plans to enable passengers to use mobile phones in flight, beginning in 2006. Test equipment aboard an Airbus A320 plane demonstrated that mobile phones can be used without interfering with navigation systems. | 3 |
Teams seeking end to Ryder hostilities BLOOMFIELD TOWNSHIP, Mich. - Hal Sutton has pretty much told the Europeans to quot;get over it. quot;. The US Ryder Cup captain is tired of hearing about the ugly American celebration that took place five years ago | 1 |
UPDATE 1-Ferrero downed at China Open Juan Carlos Ferrero became the second major casualty of the China Open on Thursday, the number two seed losing 6-4 6-4 to American Kevin Kim in the second round. | 1 |
Hopkins draws on past vs. De La Hoya It wasn #39;ta name. It belonged on a license plate. But Y4145 identified Bernard Hopkins for nearly five years. In some ways, it still does. | 1 |
It #39;s been a while since it was fun at the ol #39; ballpark This fortress that Randy Johnson constructed, the one that keeps fans at arm #39;s length and teammates at a respectful distance, is also the reason the man can make a grown bat cry. | 1 |
Indonesia acquits two reporters of libel An Indonesian court on Thursday acquitted two prominent reporters of libeling a wealthy businessman, the conclusion of a closely watched cased that is likely to encourage Indonesia #39;s embattled press. | 0 |
Iran Dismisses New Nuke Site Charge as 'A New Lie' VIENNA (Reuters) - A senior Iranian official said on Thursday that the latest allegation that Tehran is hiding a nuclear site from U.N. inspectors was a lie and denied that the U.N. nuclear watchdog had even asked to visit it. | 0 |
Russia's Putin Rules Out Talking to Chechen Rebels ASTANA (Reuters) - Russian President Vladimir Putin on Thursday ruled out any negotiations with Chechen rebel leaders following the Beslan school hostage-seizure in which more than 320 people were killed, half of them children. | 0 |
2 Americans, 1 Briton Kidnapped in Iraq BAGHDAD, Iraq - Gunmen kidnapped two Americans and a Briton from a house in the heart of the Iraqi capital Thursday, the Interior Ministry and witnesses said. The three were seized from a two-story house surrounded by a wall in Baghdad's al-Mansour neighborhood at dawn, said Col... | 0 |
Ivan Makes Landfall on Alabama Coast GULF SHORES, Ala. - Hurricane Ivan slammed ashore early Thursday with winds of 130 mph, packing deadly tornadoes and a powerful punch of waves and rain that threatened to swamp communities from Louisiana to the Florida Panhandle... | 0 |
Loss has Mercury scrambling to hold final playoff berth The Mercury wasted a 13-point lead and dipped to .500 at 16-16 with a 73-58 loss to the Seattle Storm at KeyArena Wednesday night. | 1 |
Games blur news and entertainment Some game makers are trying to get players to expand their horizons by reflecting on news events in games | 3 |
Baseball Today (AP) AP - Houston at St. Louis (8:10 p.m. EDT). Jason Marquis goes for his 15th win of the season against the Astros. | 1 |
On your mark A capsule look at the 10 drivers eligible for The Chase for Nextel Cup: 1. Jeff Gordon (5,050 points), No. 24 DuPont Chevrolet, 2004 winnings: \$4,992,175 -- Enters NASCAR's inaugural playoff as points leader after vaulting ahead of Hendrick Motorsports teammate Jimmie Johnson with a third-place finish in last Saturday's Chevy Rock n' Roll 400 at Richmond International Raceway . ... | 1 |
Some fans cooling off, take NHL's hit in stride For hockey fans, this winter might just be the coldest, longest yet. As expected, no agreement has been reached between National Hockey League owners and players, and at midnight last night a decade-old collective bargaining agreement expired with no new deal in sight and the upcoming season on the brink of nonexistence. | 1 |
Happy return for Youkilis If you don't think Kevin Youkilis is happy to be back in the Red Sox lineup, consider this: He was in his uniform and on the field three hours before last night's game against the Devil Rays. | 1 |
Mueller takes leave for opinion on knee Though the MRI of Bill Mueller's sore right knee showed no apparent damage, the Red Sox third baseman flew to Phoenix yesterday to be examined by Dr. David Zeman , who performed arthroscopic surgery on the knee May 28. quot;The initial call was pretty good, but the guy's been inside the knee, quot; said manager Terry Francona , who started Kevin ... | 1 |
Today's schedule Pro baseball: Tampa Bay vs. Red Sox at Fenway Park, 7 p.m. College field hockey: Conn. College at Springfield, 4 p.m.; Endicott at Gordon, 4 p.m.; Southern Maine at Bates, 4 p.m.; UMass-Dartmouth at Wheaton, 4:30 p.m.; Husson at Bowdoin, 4:30 p.m.; Babson at Wesleyan, 4:30 p.m.; Providence at Harvard, 7 p.m.; MIT at Simmons, 7 p.m.; Clark at Worcester ... | 1 |
Frequent flingers With last night's start, Tim Wakefield moved past Roger Clemens into second place on the club's all-time list for most pitching appearances. The top five on the list: | 1 |
Pro Tours: The Stops and the Talk PGA Event: Texas Open. Site: LaCantera Golf Club, The Resort Course (7,001 yards, par 70), San Antonio. Schedule: Today-Sunday. Purse: \$3.5 million. Winner's share: \$630,000. Television: ESPN (today-Saturday, 4-6 p.m.; Sunday, 4-7). Last year: Tommy Armour broke the PGA Tour's 72-hole scoring record, finishing at 26-under 254. He shot 64-62-63-66 to win by seven strokes. Last week: Vijay Singh won ... | 1 |
New tee will try to hold its own Many times in his career as a passionate golfer, Pat Grant had made a tee time. He had never spent any time thinking about a tee, however. | 1 |
Sun get back into playoffs The Connecticut Sun clinched a playoff spot for the second straight year behind Nykesha Sales's 28 points in an 81-67 win over the Sting last night at Charlotte, N.C. | 1 |
Volkswagen labor negotiators far apart Volkswagen #39;s labor negotiations in Germany began Wednesday with union demands for raises and job guarantees and company calls for a two-year pay freeze. | 2 |
CEO of Coke lowers outlook for quarter Coca-Cola #39;s chief executive yesterday said the world #39;s largest beverage maker needs to work harder, better execute its strategy, and improve its culture | 2 |
Corus breaks into profit Anglo-Dutch steelmaker Corus Group has swung into the black for the first time in its five-year history and says restructuring, a tight market and price hikes keep the outlook positive for 2004. | 2 |
NHL: Pucks iced The National Hockey League shut down at midnight Wednesday night, locking out players from training camps and signaling that owners are willing to cancel the | 1 |
Ferrero crashes in China Juan Carlos Ferrero was sent out of the China Open in the second round by Kevin Kim of the United States. The Spanish second seed, whose season has been disrupted by injury and illness, was outplayed and Kim wrapped up a 6-4 6-4 victory with an ace. | 1 |
Couple linked with embassy attack arrested in Indonesia A man and his wife have been arrested in the Indonesian province of East Java with possible link to the last week #39;s bombing outside the Australian Embassy here, police said Thursday. | 0 |
Beheaded bodies found near Baghdad But police said two of the bodies had tattoos written in the Roman alphabet -- one saying quot;HECER quot;, and the other a letter H. The third body had tattoos written in Arabic script but the words were not Arabic. | 0 |
Indonesia #39;s presidential candidates pledge to develop country Jakarta (VNA) - Indonesia #39;s two presidential candidates pledged to restore the economy, improve infrastructure, reduce the unemployment rate, focus on development of industry, agriculture, technology, education, and equal development between localities | 0 |
UN General Assembly refuses to consider Taiwan #39;s UN representation The General Committee of the United Nations General Assembly decided Wednesday at its 59th session not to include into the draft agenda of the current session the so | 0 |
Big Blue loses multibillion outsourcing contract Armonk-based IBM Corp. has lost a \$5 billion contract to provide technology outsourcing services to JPMorgan Chase amp; Co. New York-based JPMorgan plans to rehire 4,000 workers whose jobs | 2 |
Networks seek okay for drug ads on TV Officials with Canada #39;s top TV broadcasters said they expect regulators soon will allow them access to the free-spending prescription drug industry. | 2 |
Flynn makes Wales plea Ex-Wrexham, Swansea and Wales Under-21 coach Brian Flynn is desperate to succeed Mark Hughes as Wales manager. quot;I said when I took over the Wrexham job 14 years ago that my long-term ambition was to manage | 1 |
Ferrero, Scheuttler come up short, Safin cruises in China Open Juan Carlos Ferrero #39;s hope of a first ATP title was left in tatters at the China Open on Thursday when the second seed was beaten by Kevin Kim from the United States. | 1 |
Annan: Iraq war was illegal UN chief says Iraq may not be able to hold credible elections as planned in January 2005 due to lack of security. By Robert MacPherson - LONDON. | 0 |
Richemont Sparkle Lifts European Stocks (Reuters) Reuters - Sparkling sales from luxury goods giant\Richemont helped lift European shares on Thursday, quelling\concerns about advertising firm Havas' plans to issue more\shares and the drag effect of a weaker Wall Street.. | 0 |
Surprise rise in UK retail sales UK High Street sales confound market expectations and rise by 0.6 in August, increasing the likelihood of another interest rate rise this year. | 2 |
South Korea chip makers face US probe into price fixing SEOUL: South Korean microchip makers said they face a US investigation into a price-fixing conspiracy in which German maker Infineon technologies has already suffered heavy fines. | 2 |
Microsoft and Sendo end row British mobile phone maker Sendo has settled a David and Goliath-style lawsuit against Microsoft in which it accused the software firm of stealing its secrets and trying to force it out of business. | 3 |
Villeneuve: Our aim was to learn. Jacques Villeneuve has explained away his bottom of the times performance at yesterday #39;s Silverstone test as merely the process of his re-acclimatisation to Formula One, and of the Renault team learning to work with him. | 1 |
U.S. Web Shoppers' Holiday Spending Up SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Online consumers in the United States spent \$8.8 billion, excluding travel purchases, in November, a 19 percent jump over the \$7.4 billion spent online a year earlier, a report released on Monday said. | 2 |
Gunmen Seize Two Americans, Briton in Baghdad BAGHDAD (Reuters) - Gunmen snatched two Americans and a Briton from a house in central Baghdad on Thursday, the latest in a wave of abductions of foreigners in Iraq. | 0 |
Afghan President Aborts Trip After Rocket Attack GARDEZ, Afghanistan (Reuters) - Afghan President Hamid Karzai aborted an election campaign trip to the southeast province of Gardez on Thursday after a rocket exploded just before he was due to land by helicopter. | 0 |
Cameroon leader seeks a new term Cameroon's President Paul Biya confirms that he will stand for re-election in next month's polls. | 0 |
Image flaw exposes Windows PCs Millions of computer users are at risk of attack because flaws in the way Windows handles some images. | 0 |
U.S., Europe Tentatively OK Censure Iran VIENNA, Austria - U.S. and European negotiators tentatively agreed Thursday to censure Iran for reneging on a freeze on uranium enrichment and moved closer to setting a deadline on Tehran to dispel suspicions it is trying to make nuclear arms... | 0 |
IBM adds #39;trusted #39; chip to PCs IBM plans to start shipping its PCs with a new chip designed to thwart hackers by safeguarding passwords and other sensitive identity information. | 3 |
Debugging the Megahertz Myth Most, if not all, of you have read or been in heated debates over why or why not higher clocked microprocessors are better than their quot;comparable quot; competition. | 3 |
Football? No, it #39;s the Ryder Cup It #39;s got to be the Bobby Bowden, good-ol #39;-boy drawl and the fact that Hal Sutton is now so beefy he looks as if he could have played linebacker at one time for LSU. | 1 |
De La Hoya, Hopkins worry about Ivan, too Hurricane Ivan could blow away some of the rewards Oscar De La Hoya and Bernard Hopkins hope to realize from their middleweight showdown here Saturday. | 1 |
#39;Satisfied #39; Benitez left wanting more RAFAEL BENITEZ last night insisted there was more to come from Liverpool after the quot;fantastic start quot; to their Champions League return. | 1 |
Baby daughter has Riley hooked There were only a couple of dozen reporters on hand for San Diego native Chris Riley #39;s early morning press conference at the Ryder Cup at Bloomfield Township, Mich. | 1 |
Couple arrested over Jakarta embassy blast Indonesian police have arrested a man and his wife suspected of possible involvement in last week #39;s suicide car bombing at the Australian embassy in Jakarta. | 0 |
Briton Shot Dead in Saudi #39;Terror Attack #39; A Briton shot dead in Saudi Arabia in an apparent terrorist attack was working for communications firm Marconi, the company said today. | 0 |
Alitalia seals ground staff deal Italian airline Alitalia has agreed a deal with its ground staff, paving the way for some 2,500 job cuts and a reduction in staff benefits. | 2 |
Calif. activist buys first hybrid Escape A California environmental activist on Wednesday became the first customer to take delivery of a Ford Escape Hybrid. Ford Motor Co. | 2 |
Yahoo! Joins Music Download Race Not to be outdone in the digital download race by the likes of Microsoft, Apple and Real Networks, Yahoo have firmly stated their intentions by acquiring Musicmatch. | 3 |
Image flaw exposes Windows PCs Computer users could be open to attack from malicious hackers because of the way that Windows displays some images. Microsoft has issued a warning about a critical vulnerability in Windows that could let carefully | 3 |
Saunders Calls for Welsh Appointment for Wales Former Wales striker Dean Saunders believes the new national team boss should be a Welshman. He has called on the Football Association of Wales to examine the credentials of the | 1 |
TEAM USA: Quizzical Riley is life of the party Birmingham #39;s Townsend Hotel expected the United States Ryder Cup players, their wives and maybe a few children this week. But no one thought the players and children could get confused. | 1 |
Franklin dumps the #39;monkey #39; It would have been easy to dedicate this one to quot;Maw quot; - the 78-year-old grandmother Ryan Franklin lost last week. He could have said it was for his son, splayed across his father #39;s lap after the game. | 1 |
Indons detain couple in connection with embassy bombing Police have detained a man and his wife in the port city of Surabaya and are questioning them in connection with last week #39;s deadly bombing at the Australian embassy, a spokesman said Thursday. | 0 |
Our Man in Pyongyang Sets off on Blast Inspection Britains ambassador to North Korea travelled today to the site of a massive explosion to verify claims by the secretive Marxist nation that it was not a nuclear test. | 0 |
Why PCCW is laughing all the way to the bank <strong>Letter</strong> TDD mode is not just data delivery | 3 |
Corus swings to profit Anglo-Dutch steelmaker Corus Group has unveiled the first profit in its five-year history for the first half of the year and says restructuring, strong demand and higher steel prices are keeping its outlook positive. | 2 |
Gap Matures, Targets Women Over 35 The parent company of Gap, Banana Republic and Old Navy plans to test a new idea for a clothing chain targeting women over 35. In a statement, Gap Incorporated says it will try out its new | 2 |
UK retail sales rebound in Aug; up 0.6 pct from July to beat <b>...</b> According to official data from National Statistics, retail sales rose 0.6 pct in August from July for a 6.5 pct annual increase. The figures were well above expectations of a 0.2 pct decline and a 5.8 pct gain respectively. | 2 |
Research In Motion Introduces New BlackBerry 7100v in Europe and <b>...</b> Research In Motion (RIM) (Nasdaq:RIMM) (TSX:RIM) today introduced the innovative new BlackBerry 7100v(TM) for mobile professionals, further expanding choice for Vodafone #39;s BlackBerry(R) customers. | 3 |
MIKE WENDLAND: Messaging update is mostly good news After years of being deluged with ever-increasing loads of spam, Internet users are starting to turn to instant-messaging applications instead of e-mail. | 3 |
IBM protects passwords with PC chip com September 15, 2004, 9:01 PM PT. Most IT Managers won #39;t question the importance of security, but this priority has been sliding between the third and fourth most important focus for companies. | 3 |
Owners: The puck stops here Saying the league was out of gas, commissioner Gary Bettman announced the long predicted lockout Wednesday and insisted the league will not play any more games until there is a new economic system. | 1 |
SI.com OAKLAND, California (Ticker) -- Those who wrote off the Texas Rangers in recent weeks soon may be forced to adjust their thinking. | 1 |
Jacques wants revenge on BAR Renault couldn #39;t have chosen to better driver to replace Jarno Trulli than Jacques Villeneuve, as there is nothing the Canadian wants more than revenge on his former team, BAR. | 1 |
Part of the ECT News Network The Gnome Foundation today released a new version of its popular Linux desktop. The new release, Gnome version 2.8, boosts speed and usability and offers several new features, the foundation said in a statement. | 3 |
Vodafone gets first bite of latest BlackBerry Vodafone has become the first UK mobile phone operator to offer Research In Motion #39;s latest mobile device, the BlackBerry 7100. | 3 |
Bush war on Iraq illegal - United Nations Secretary Annan United Nations Secretary, General Kofi Annan, said in an interview with the BBC, that the US led invasion of Iraq was illegal. When asked whether he thought the invasion of Iraq was illegal, Annan replied quot;Yes, if you wish. | 0 |
Instant Messaging Goes Graphical For most of the millions of people around the world who regularly use instant messaging, the communications tool has largely been a text-only experience in which typed emoticons offer only minimal clues to someone #39;s state of mind. | 3 |
US, Europe tentatively OK Iran censure US and European negotiators tentatively agreed Thursday to censure Iran for reneging on a freeze on uranium enrichment and moved closer to setting a deadline on Tehran | 0 |
Blair in Northern Ireland bargaining Tony Blair is preparing to urge unionists and republicans to agree to a deal that would transform Northern Ireland #39;s deadlocked peace process. | 0 |
Rocket attack stops presidential visit Afghan President Hamid Karzai aborted a trip to a provincial capital today after a rocket hit near the landing site for his helicopter. | 0 |
US troops sue over tours in Iraq A group of US soldiers take legal action to try to prevent the army extending their tours of duty in Iraq. | 0 |
Stewart decides to go to prison Expressing a desire to quot;put this nightmare behind me, quot; Martha Stewart said Wednesday that she would enter a federal prison soon to begin serving her five-month sentence without | 2 |
Bridging a generational Gap Charla Moseley shops at Gap stores for every member of her family: her 13-year-old daughter, 18-year-old son and her youngest boy, 6. The 38-year-old art organization manager | 2 |
Wall Street Start Seen Steady (Reuters) Reuters - Wall Street was set to open slightly\firmer on Thursday, recovering some lost ground after\Wednesday's sell-off, but lofty crude prices and worry about\profit warnings will cap investor enthusiasm. | 2 |
Two bombers surrender, says Israel TWO Palestinian women, who planned to blow themselves up in a double suicide bombing in Tel Aviv, gave themselves up to Israeli troops at a West Bank checkpoint, Israeli military sources said today. | 0 |
EBay's China Site to Join Worldwide Network (Reuters) Reuters - Online auctioneer eBay Inc. will plug\a recently purchased China site into its global network on\Friday, creating new opportunities for a nascent but\fast-growing operation, its chief executive said. | 3 |
U.S. Alarmed Over Suspected Iran Nuke Site (AP) AP - A U.S. official expressed alarm Thursday about a possible nuclear-weapons related test site in Iran and accused the U.N. nuclear watchdog agency of keeping silent on its own concerns about the issue. | 0 |
Wall Street Start Seen Steady LONDON (Reuters) - Wall Street was set to open slightly firmer on Thursday, recovering some lost ground after Wednesday's sell-off, but lofty crude prices and worry about profit warnings will cap investor enthusiasm. | 2 |
Arizona's Johnson Becomes All-Time Lefty Strikeout King PHOENIX (Sports Network) - Randy Johnson became the all-time major league strikeout leader among left-handed pitchers on a night he led the Arizona Diamondbacks to a 3-2 win over the Colorado Rockies in the third of a four- game set at Bank One Ballpark. | 1 |
Report: Japan May Sanction Citibank TOKYO (Reuters) - Japan's financial regulator may suspend or even end some private banking operations at the Japanese commercial banking unit of U.S. financial services firm Citigroup Inc. due to lost customer data and questionable securities transactions, local media said on Thursday. | 2 |
Battle for Ryder Cup 'Underdog' Tag at Oakland Hills BLOOMFIELD HILLS, Michigan (Reuters) - The 19-inch Ryder Cup is not the only thing coveted by holders Europe and the United States at Oakland Hills this week. | 1 |
Dollar Holds Firm Before CPI, Philly Fed LONDON (Reuters) - The dollar kept close to the previous session's one-week highs against the euro and Swiss franc on Thursday, holding steady as investors awaited U.S. data to confirm fresh signs of strength in U.S. manufacturing. | 2 |
Caesars Expected to Unveil Casino Deal LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Caesars Entertainment Inc.<A HREF="http://www.investor.reuters.com/FullQuote.aspx?ticker=CZR.N target=/stocks/quickinfo/fullquote">CZR.N</A> is expected on Thursday to unveil a deal with a California Indian tribe to develop and manage a \$250 million casino complex near Fresno in the central part of the state. | 2 |
Ukraine Leader Agrees on Measures for Fair Vote KIEV (Reuters) - Ukraine's outgoing President Leonid Kuchma said on Tuesday he had agreed to sack the central election commission and support election law reform -- both key opposition demands to end mass protests against a rigged vote. | 0 |
NASA Still Lacks Shuttle Repair Kits (AP) AP - Nearly two years after Columbia shattered in the sky, NASA still has no way of repairing the kind of holes that could doom another shuttle, space agency officials acknowledged Monday in their latest status report on the return-to-flight effort. | 3 |
2 Americans, 1 Briton Kidnapped in Iraq BAGHDAD, Iraq - Gunmen kidnapped two Americans and a Briton Thursday from a house in an upscale Baghdad neighborhood where many foreign companies are based, the Interior Ministry and witnesses said. The three were employed by Gulf Services Company, a Middle East-based construction firm, and were seized from a two-story house surrounded by a wall in the al-Mansour neighborhood, said Col... | 0 |
Kinks Seen in Theft of Saturn's Ring Material (SPACE.com) SPACE.com - New images from the Cassini spacecraft reveal undulating kinks in one of the rings and theft of ring dust by a moon. The kinks are seen in greater detail than ever before and the thievery has been photographed for the first time. | 3 |
U.S. Alarmed Over Suspected Iran Nuke Site VIENNA, Austria - A U.S. official expressed alarm Thursday about a possible nuclear-weapons related test site in Iran and accused the U.N... | 0 |
Tapwave Zodiac 2 <strong><cite>Reg</cite> Review</strong> The best handheld games console yet? | 3 |
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