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I #39;ll Give Them This One To battle your way down the interminable ramps leading to the exits at Yankee Stadium after Friday night #39;s game, you would have thought the days of a last-place finish in a 10-team league from 1966 were back to haunt us. | 1 |
Weather gods smile on England England marched into the semi-finals of the ICC Champions Trophy as the Duckworth-Lewis method saw them secure a 49-run victory over Sri Lanka at the Rose Bowl. | 1 |
UN atomic agency launches crackdown on Iran VIENNA - The UN atomic watchdog agency demanded Iran suspend all uranium enrichment activities and gave it until November comply with the order. | 0 |
Four arrested in Jakarta bombing attack Indonesian police said Saturday that four suspects in last week #39;s bomb attack at the Australian embassy in Jakarta have been arrested. | 0 |
Karzai says foreign troops vital for Afghanistan Afghan President Hamid Karzai, who most Western governments want to see win an election on Oct. 9, said today that foreign troops would remain until the country #39;s own fledgling forces can take the charge of stability. | 0 |
Mickelson Back on Course After Benching (AP) AP - Phil Mickelson spent a sleepless night, not that it really mattered since he had plenty of time to rest up Saturday at the Ryder Cup. The best player in the majors this year, a chastised Mickelson sat out the morning four-ball matches mostly because U.S. captain Hal Sutton dared not risk giving away any more points. | 1 |
First Enron Criminal Case Set for Trial (Reuters) Reuters - Nearly three years after Enron Corp.'s\ dramatic collapse into bankruptcy, the first\criminal trial against the disgraced energy company's former\employees is set to kick off on Monday. | 2 |
No. 17 Michigan Escapes San Diego State (AP) AP - Braylon Edwards caught eight passes for 130 yards and two touchdowns, including the game-winner in the third quarter, to lead No. 17 Michigan past San Diego State 24-21 on Saturday. | 1 |
UN Council Passes Resolution on Darfur Atrocities UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) - The U.N. Security Council adopted a resolution on Saturday that threatens to consider oil sanctions against Sudan if Khartoum does not stop atrocities in the Darfur region. | 0 |
Americans Wake Up on Day 2 of Ryder Cup The Americans won a couple of better-ball matches and halved another before losing to the most unheralded European team in the final match Saturday morning. | 1 |
The makings of Siliconski Valleyski? Russia turns to India for help setting up IT industrial parks in Moscow. | 3 |
Lithuania shuts Chechen rebel site Lithuania temporarily disables a website publishing information on the activities of Chechen rebel leaders. | 0 |
Iran say IAEA resolution political Iran Saturday blasted a resolution by the Board of Governors of the International Atomic Energy Agency on Iran #39;s nuclear program as a political one. | 0 |
West Virginia Edges Maryland 19-16 in OT (AP) AP - Rasheed Marshall threw a 7-yard touchdown pass to Chris Henry in overtime to lift No. 7 West Virginia to a 19-16 victory over No. 21 Maryland on Saturday. | 1 |
Hokies Roll in ACC Opener Bryan Randall runs for one touchdown and passes for another score Saturday and Virginia Tech wins its first game as an Atlantic Coast Conference member, 41-17, over Duke. | 1 |
Bush Reviews Disputed Guard Documents KENNEBUNKPORT, Maine - President Bush has reviewed disputed documents that purport to show he refused orders to take a physical examination in 1972 and did not recall having seen them previously, a White House official said Saturday. The long-running story on Bush's Texas Air National Guard service took an unusual twist when CBS broadcast a report on what it said were the newly discovered records... | 0 |
No. 17 Michigan 24, San Diego State 21 Braylon Edwards caught eight passes for 130 yards and two touchdowns, including the game-winner in the third quarter, to lead No. 17 Michigan past San Diego State 24-21 on Saturday. | 1 |
IMF lets Argentina defer \$1.1 billion in debt. The International Monetary Fund on Friday granted an Argentine government request to defer \$1.1 billion in debt repayments that Buenos Aires was scheduled to make between now and January. | 2 |
Outsourcing megadeals lose momentum The move by JPMorgan Chase to cancel a \$5 billion technology services contract with IBM may show quot;megadeals quot; are going the way of the dinosaur. | 2 |
700 Homers Down, 2 Men to Go As Barry Bonds spoke Friday night about strength and concentration, his 5-year-old daughter, Aisha, clutched his bulging right biceps as if she were squeezing her favorite stuffed animal. | 1 |
Bomb rocks Baghdad A suicide car bomber has killed at least eight people in an attack on a police checkpoint in Baghdad, after a night of US air strikes around the rebel-held city of Falluja that killed scores. | 0 |
Iraqi Airways Resumes Int #39;l Flights Iraqi Airways resumed international flights for the first time in 14 years, with a plane taking off Saturday from neighboring Jordan for Baghdad and another leaving the Iraqi capital for Damascus, Syria. | 0 |
Insurgents seize more hostages An Iraqi group calling itself Abu Bakr Al-Siddiq Brigades has claimed to have abducted 10 employees from an quot;American-Turkish quot; company operating in Iraq. | 0 |
Fan With Bonds' Ball Attended Same H.S. (AP) AP - The fan who retrieved Barry Bonds' 700th home run attended the same private Catholic high school as the slugger #151; Serra High in nearby San Mateo. | 1 |
Ex-Guardsman: I Contacted Kerry Campaign (AP) AP - A retired Texas National Guard official mentioned as a possible source for disputed documents about President Bush's service in the Guard said he passed along information to a former senator working with John Kerry's campaign. | 0 |
U.S. Ryder Cup Team Losing a Fight for Survival BLOOMFIELD HILLS, Michigan (Reuters) - The U.S. Ryder Cup team, wounded after a first day mauling, were losing a fight for survival Saturday. | 1 |
Militants Threaten to Kill US, UK Hostages in Iraq BAGHDAD (Reuters) - Insurgents in Iraq threatened Saturday to kill 13 hostages, including two Americans and a Briton, and staged car bomb attacks killing 23 people in Kirkuk and two U.S. soldiers near Baghdad. | 0 |
Michigan Escapes San Diego State Braylon Edwards caught eight passes for 130 yards and two touchdowns, including the game-winner in the third quarter for No. 17 Michigan. | 1 |
IMF gives Argentina one-year reprieve The International Monetary Fund (IMF) has given Argentina a one-year extension on repaying \$US1.1 billion (\$A1.58 billion) in debt. | 2 |
NCAA Game Summary - Marshall at Georgia Athens, GA (Sports Network) - Michael Cooper ran for the only touchdown of the game, as third-ranked Georgia rode its defense to a 13-3 victory over Marshall at Sanford Stadium. | 1 |
Turkish Parliament Fails to Pass Reforms ANKARA, Turkey Sept. 18, 2004 - Turkey #39;s parliament adjourned Saturday without passing a key reform package because of divisions over the government #39;s proposal to make adultery a crime, bringing warnings | 0 |
Pentagon says 35 detainees' transferred out of Guantanamo (AFP) AFP - The US Defense Department announced the transfer of 35 detainees from Guantanamo Bay Naval Station (GTMO) in Cuba to Pakistan. | 0 |
European Rookies Shine at Ryder Cup (AP) AP - Paul Casey and David Howell sure didn't look like Ryder Cup rookies on Saturday #151; judging by the shots they produced under pressure, and by the crucial point they won. | 1 |
UN Threatens Sudan with Sanctions on Darfur Abuses UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) - The U.N. Security Council adopted a resolution on Saturday threatening Sudan with sanctions if it did not stop atrocities in the western Darfur region where Arab militias are terrorizing African villagers. | 0 |
Lieber and Hot Bats Halt Red Sox Jon Lieber no-hit the Red Sox until David Ortiz's two-out home run in the seventh inning, and the New York Yankees beat up on Derek Lowe. | 1 |
Ukraine Opposition Leader Defiant After Poisoning KIEV (Reuters) - Ukrainian presidential hopeful Viktor Yushchenko returned to campaigning Saturday in a defiant mood after recovering from what his supporters said was an attempt by authorities to poison him. | 0 |
Bowen Invades Backfield In four NFL seasons spanning 54 games, Redskins safety Matt Bowen had never sacked a quarterback. In last week's win over the Bucs, he sacked Brad Johnson twice. | 1 |
Yankees Beat Up Red Sox 14-4, Widen Lead NEW YORK - Jon Lieber nearly pitched a game for the ages. As it was, he was plenty good... | 0 |
Cybercrime summit urges international cooperation com September 18, 2004, 12:05 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 |
UPDATE 1-Proud Palermo ensure Inter are held again Inter Milan were held to a 1-1 draw at home to promoted Palermo on Saturday after Luca Toni cancelled out Adriano #39;s opener for Inter at the San Siro stadium. | 1 |
Network Security Microsoft Image Flaw Opens Door to Hackers Microsoft is offering a patch for a critical security flaw related to the processing of JPEG images by its operating systems and other applications. | 3 |
Europe Council looks to fight cybercrime BRUSSELS, Belgium - An international conference opened Wednesday amid warnings that companies, governments and individuals are increasingly vulnerable to Internet attacks by terrorists, hackers and others that rob them of privacy, money, and secrets. | 3 |
Ryder Cup Golf: European Team Leads The US team has regained some ground against Europe on the second day of the Ryder Cup golf competition outside Detroit, Michigan. | 1 |
Tennis: Safin Advances to China Open Finals Former US Open champion Marat Safin of Russia has advanced to the finals of the China Open tennis tournament in Beijing after scoring a straight-set win over Finland #39;s Jarkko Nieminen 6-2, 6-4. | 1 |
No. 4 Miami 48, Louisiana Tech 0 Frank Gore and Tyrone Moss combined for three touchdowns, leading No. 4 Miami to a 48-0 victory over Louisiana Tech on Saturday. The Hurricanes, coming off a huge win against in-state and conference rival Florida State, certainly didn #39;t have a letdown. | 1 |
Inter draws again Milan, Italy (Sports Network) - Inter Milan has earned just two points after two Serie A matches, thanks to a 1-1 draw with Palermo on Saturday night. | 1 |
Two off as Real #39;s misery continues MADRID, Spain -- Real Madrid #39;s week of misery continued when they suffered a 1-0 defeat at Espanyol, finishing with nine men after the dismissals of Walter Samuel and Michel Salgado. | 1 |
Howard accuses Government of lacking #39;real #39; post-war Iraq plan Conservative leader Michael Howard has accused the Government for going to war with Iraq devoid of a comprehensive plan to restore stability to the country. | 0 |
Tejada Rips Up Twins Miguel Tejada homers twice and drives in five runs, rookie Daniel Cabrera throws six strong innings and the Orioles beat up on the Twins, 12-3, Saturday. | 1 |
The MGM Approach: Pay Me First, Sign the Deal Later So when a consortium of investors led by the Sony Corporation of America announced that it had reached a deal in principle to acquire Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer for nearly \$5 billion, it came | 2 |
Miami (FL) Hurricanes MIAMI (Ticker) -- For the third straight game, No. 5 Miami #39;s special teams were magical against Louisiana Tech. Redshirt sophomore Devin Hester returned two punts for touchdowns to highlight the Hurricanes #39; 48-0 thrashing of the Bulldogs. | 1 |
UPDATE 2-Nine-man Real Madrid suffer chaotic 1-0 defeat Ronaldo missed a penalty and Walter Samuel and Michel Salgado were both sent off as Real Madrid lost 1-0 at Espanyol on a night of self-inflicted misery on Saturday. | 1 |
Lyon, Bastia tie, share lead after Marseille tops Toulouse in <b>...</b> Lyon drew 0-0 with Bastia Saturday, earning both a share of the French first-division lead as Marseille beat Toulouse 1-0 on Peguy Luyindula #39;g goal. | 1 |
UN resolution threatens Sudan with sanctions The UN Security Council adopted a resolution on Saturday that threatens oil sanctions against Sudan if Khartoum does not stop atrocities in the Darfur region. | 0 |
UK and US defy UN over Iraq election By James Cusick, Westminster Editor, and Zainab Naji in Baghdad. The British and United States governments are on course for another confrontation with the United Nations over the proposed elections in Iraq. | 0 |
Venezuelans killed on Colombian border Seven Venezuelans, including six soldiers, were killed near the border with Colombia, and Venezuelan authorities suspect that Colombian rebels could be behind the shootings, an official said late Saturday. | 0 |
So, That's the Point of This Company The head of InterActiveCorp talks about the confusion that the company's setup provokes and whether he would consider becoming the chief executive at Disney. | 3 |
Packers Activate Cornerback McKenzie (AP) AP - The Green Bay Packers activated cornerback Mike McKenzie and waived tight end Sean McHugh on Saturday. | 1 |
Wilstein: NHL Won't Be Widely Missed (AP) AP - The essential question facing NHL owners and locked-out players is: Who cares? | 1 |
Europe Leaves U.S. Needing Ryder Cup Miracle BLOOMFIELD HILLS, Michigan (Reuters) - The U.S. team were left needing a final-day miracle escape after Europe maintained their stranglehold of the 35th Ryder Cup on Saturday. | 1 |
Blair Was Warned of Post-War Iraq Chaos -- Paper LONDON (Reuters) - Britain's foreign secretary and senior officials warned Prime Minister Tony Blair a year before invading Iraq that chaos could follow the toppling of Saddam Hussein, a newspaper said Saturday. | 0 |
Storm Chasing (the Wall Street Version) Long before Hurricane Ivan began bearing down on the Gulf Coast last week, a special breed of money managers was carefully tracking its development. | 2 |
Commodities Are Riding on China's Coattails In the first half of 2004, commodities investors worried that a hard landing for China's economy could be disastrous for them, but those fears have not borne out. | 2 |
OWEN SUBBED AS REAL CRASH Michael Owens unspectacular start to life with Real Madrid continued as he was substituted early in the second half after making his first start for the club, as they lost 1-0 to unfancied Espanyol. | 1 |
No. 12 Virginia Dominates Akron 51-0 (AP) AP - Defensively dominant and offensively unstoppable, at least so far, No. 12 Virginia started the season with three straight wins for the first time since 1998 with a 51-0 victory against Akron on Saturday. | 1 |
U.N. Threatens Sanctions Against Sudan UNITED NATIONS - The U.N. Security Council approved a resolution Saturday threatening oil sanctions against Sudan unless the government acts to rein in Arab militias accused of violence in the Darfur region that the United States has called genocide... | 0 |
La. Voters Expected to OK Gay-Marriage Ban BATON ROUGE, La. - Louisiana voters decided Saturday whether to approve a constitutional amendment to ban gay marriage, one of up to 12 such measures on the ballot around the country this year... | 0 |
Unions in talks over Jaguar blow Unions are to hold an emergency meeting with workers at the doomed Browns Lane Jaguar plant in Coventry. Parent company Ford plans to stop car production at the plant, with 400 voluntary redundancies and 425 jobs moved to the Castle Bromwich factory. | 2 |
Ad boss keeps his job and earns \$30m #39;compensation #39; The boss of the American advertising group which was taken over last week by Sir Martin Sorrell #39;s WPP will receive almost \$30m (18m) quot;compensation quot; for keeping his job. | 2 |
Why a Red Sox Fan Shouldn #39;t Really Want His Team to End the World ou have a friend who is a Boston Red Sox fan. A good, loyal friend. A confidant you can pity. Boy, you say to him, the Sox are strong this year. | 1 |
Flintoff brings a golden hue to autumn Anything is possible for England now. The Champions Trophy, South Africa this winter, the World Cup, the Ashes next summer, global domination, all those things that once | 1 |
Still Healing From Burns, Earnhardt Is Ready for Nascar #39;s New <b>...</b> If only Dale Earnhardt Jr. could jump in his car and tear away from the fuss, leaving thunder clouds of defiant black tire smoke in his wake. | 1 |
Lecce and Palermo Share Lead in Italy Southerners Lecce and Sicilys Palermo are the surprise pacesetters in Serie A after playing their second matches of the season. | 1 |
Myanmar #39;s foreign minister, deputy fired MYANMAR #39;S military junta yesterday dismissed the Foreign Minister and his deputy in an unexpected Cabinet reshuffle that saw two other ministers also fired. | 0 |
Panama Declares State of Emergency in Response to Deadly Floods The Panamanian government declared a state of emergency Saturday in response to torrential rains which triggered flooding and mudslides, leaving at least 10 people dead and a dozen others missing. | 0 |
New York Hopes to Win Olympics by Dividing Votes The people behind New York City's bid for the 2012 Olympics think they have a chance to beat the four competing European capitals. | 0 |
Europe Looks to Rout U.S. Without Monty (AP) AP - Nobody is more responsible than Colin Montgomerie for Europe's surge to supremacy in the Ryder Cup. That didn't keep him in the lineup Saturday with the Europeans on the verge of a rout. | 1 |
Ga. Lawmakers Favor Car Tours on Island (AP) AP - Cumberland Island is the largest undeveloped barrier island on the Eastern Seaboard and about half of it is federal wilderness area, meaning visitors and National Park Service employees are supposed to hike rather than drive. But the island has a handful of permanent residents who are free to drive on the three roads. | 3 |
NASA Still Lacks Shuttle Repair Kits 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 | 3 |
Bombers show Red Sox why they remain the team to beat NEW YORK -- So maybe everybody got a little too carried away with this Red Sox resurgence. Maybe we forgot who these guys really are. | 1 |
Real Madrid Shocked By Espanyol Its official; Real Madrid is in a crisis after slumping to a 1-0 defeat away to Espanyol. The loss is Madrids second of the week as they were humiliated on Wednesday by Bayer Leverkusen in Champions League play. | 1 |
Shifting our Kashmir Paradigm Shortly before Pakistans Foreign Minister Khursheed Mehmood Kasuri came to New Delhi, Natwar Singh held a background briefing for journalists. | 0 |
Lycos Scraps Anti-Spam Screensaver A contentious campaign to bump up the bandwidth bills of spammers by flooding their sites with data has been dropped. Lycos Europe #39;s Make Love, Not Spam campaign began in late November but its tactics proved controversial. | 3 |
Dominguez a late scratch Saturday, Benoit fills in After appealing his 16-game suspension Friday night and pitching one inning in a mopup role against the Angels, Rangers right-hander Frank Francisco began serving his | 1 |
No. 14 Auburn Upends No. 5 LSU 10-9 (AP) AP - Jason Campbell hit Courtney Taylor for a 16-yard touchdown pass with 1:14 to play and No. 14 Auburn got two chances to kick the winning extra point in a 10-9 victory over No. 5 LSU Saturday. | 1 |
Sutton Goes for Broke in Final-Day Pairings BLOOMFIELD HILLS, Michigan (Reuters) - U.S. captain Hal Sutton, looking for a final-day miracle in the Ryder Cup, predictably packed the upper order of his singles list with his biggest guns for Sunday. | 1 |
Cavaliers Flatten Zips Wali Lundy runs for three touchdowns for the third straight game and Marques Hagans threw two scoring passes to Heath Miller as Virginia stifled Akron, 51-0, Saturday. | 1 |
Europe Puts U.S. in Big Hole at Ryder Cup BLOOMFIELD TOWNSHIP, Mich. - Backed by the clutch performance from its English rookies and reliable play from Sergio Garcia and Lee Westwood, Europe put the United States in another huge hole Saturday by taking an 11-5 lead at the Ryder Cup and making victory Sunday seem like a mere formality... | 0 |
Jeanne Lashes Dominican Republic; 9 Dead SAN PEDRO DE MACORIS, Dominican Republic - Tropical Storm Jeanne battered the Dominican Republic before heading to the Bahamas where the tempest, which has killed at least nine people, began to churn seas and stir deadly storm surges on Saturday. Jeanne lost strength as it drove thousands of Dominicans from their homes by late Friday... | 0 |
Emmys to Have New Look, Same Matchups LOS ANGELES - The Emmy Awards will have a different look Sunday but a familiar matchup as "The Sopranos" tries again to topple "The West Wing" and get its first win as best dramatic series. Meanwhile, viewers will get a chance to say another goodbye to three popular comedy series that ended this past season: "Sex and the City,""Frasier" and "Friends." HBO's "Sex and the City" is the leading comedy nominee at the 56th Annual Primetime Emmy Awards, with 11 bids, including for best comedy series and for star Sarah Jessica Parker... | 0 |
Ivan Remnants Turn Fatal Along East Coast WHEELING, W.Va. - Remnants of Hurricane Ivan made a violent mark across the Southeast and the Appalachians, where several people were killed by falling trees and floods that washed away scores of roads... | 0 |
Market miscellany Buy Kingfisher (307p), the international DIY retailer. Last week the group, which owns the B amp;Q chain in the UK and Castorama on France, reported a better-than-expected 18 per cent rise in interim pre-tax profits. | 2 |
Arsenal 2-2 Bolton Heaven help the Arsenal players when they do eventually lose their very long unbeaten run. It stayed intact yesterday to 46 matches but it didnt stop a clearly frustrated Arsene Wenger claiming that his | 1 |
Padres 5, Giants 1 The San Francisco slugger added another home run to his impressive total a day after hitting career homer No. 700, but San Diego #39;s Jay Payton hit a tiebreaking three-run shot in the seventh to lead the Padres past the Giants 5-1 on Saturday. | 1 |
Blair told Bush he #39;would not budge #39; in support for war Leaked documents show a gulf between public statements on Iraq and private talks with the White House. Francis Elliott reports. Tony Blair privately promised George Bush he would not budge in his support for | 0 |
Stem-cell science: Mirage or shining city? Microscopic embryonic stem cells might hold the answer to afflictions from baldness, wrinkles, and age spots to the most intractable diseases. | 3 |
UK to scale back troops: report Britain is to scale back its 8,000-strong military presence in southern Iraq in October, despite fears of worsening security in the run-up to elections, the Observer newspaper reports. | 0 |
Second-Ranked Oklahoma Routs Oregon 31-7 (AP) AP - Freshman Adrian Peterson ran for 183 yards and scored two touchdowns in his third straight 100-yard rushing performance to lead No. 2 Oklahoma to a 31-7 victory over Oregon on Saturday. | 1 |
File and Printer Sharing Insecure in XP SP2 ProKras writes quot;German magazine PC-Welt has discovered a major security flaw in Windows XP SP2 when installing over SP1. The article says that #39;with a certain configuration, your file and printer sharing data | 3 |
ECB joins finance chiefs to issue euro fx warning BRUSSELS: The European Central Bank and euro zone finance ministers have issued their starkest warning to date that they are unhappy with the euro #39;s surge and said they were closely monitoring exchange rate swings. | 2 |
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