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Britain appeals for hostage help The Foreign Office has appealed on Al Arabiya television for any information from Iraqis on Kenneth Bigley, a British engineer taken hostage with two Americans last week. | 0 |
Unions rally resistance at Jaguar Unions hold emergency meetings with workers at Jaguar's doomed Browns Lane plant in Coventry to fight closure plans. | 2 |
Unilever warns on profits Food and consumer goods giant Unilever has shocked investors by reining in expectations for full-year profit growth to under five percent due to stiff competitor pressure and poor weather. | 2 |
UPDATE 2-Hutchison telecom unit markets US\$1 bln IPO Hutchison Telecommunications International Ltd. (HTIL), part of Hong Kong #39;s Hutchison Whampoa Ltd., on Monday began marketing a scaled-down IPO worth up to HK\$8. | 2 |
Money laundering on rise, poll finds Two-thirds of banks around the world have reported an increase in the volume of suspicious activities they report to police, a report by KPMG suggests. | 2 |
Inside look at Wall St. A criminal trial scheduled to start today involving former Enron execs could shine a rare and potentially harsh spotlight on the inner workings of the investment banking business on Wall Street. | 2 |
Alitalia shares up as deal struck Shares in Alitalia gained over 5.0 percent Monday after the state-controlled airline clinched a final union agreement over job and wage cuts, clearing a key obstacle to its turnaround plan. | 2 |
UK Aug. Mortgage Lending Weakest Since June 2002, BBA Says UK mortgage lending rose at the slowest pace in more than two years in August, the British Bankers #39; Association said, adding to signs that five interest rate increases since November are cooling the housing market. | 2 |
Attacks on Windows PC #39;s Grew in First Half of 2004 A survey of Internet vulnerabilities to be released Monday shows a sharp jump in attacks on Windows-based personal computers during the first six months of 2004, along | 3 |
UK police arrest Cisco source code suspect UK police have arrested a man on suspicion of stealing source code from networking giant Cisco. The 20 year-old was arrested following Metropolitan Police Computer Crime Unit raids in Manchester and Derbyshire on 3 September. | 3 |
Net virus turf war resumes after rival #39;s arrest A new virus outbreak emerged on Thursday that packs a baffling message: a photograph of accused German virus author Sven Jaschan that security officials believe to be | 3 |
Pakistan can go all the way through: Inzamam Birmingham: Pakistan captain Inzamam-ul-Haq said his team would try its best to go all the way in the ICC Champions Trophy after beating India in the group C league game. | 1 |
Time to cool your Jets SAN DIEGO - Okay, Jets fans. I know you #39;re excited about the team #39;s 2-0 start - the best ever under Herman Edwards. I know you #39;re ready to start booking reservations for the Super Bowl. | 1 |
Two crucial series of events help Ravens regain form BALTIMORE - At the end of the year, when the Baltimore Ravens evaluate their season, they will not focus on -r even remember - first-half scoring drives in the second game of the season against the Pittsburgh Steelers. | 1 |
Picks and kicks IRVING, Texas - Most football teams don #39;t get chances like the Browns had yesterday in a month, let alone in one afternoon. The Browns wasted field position, squandered takeaways, and as happened many times | 1 |
Storm Jeanne death toll at 100 GONAVES, HaitiTropical storm Jeanne swept northern Haiti with flash floods, killing at least 90 people and leaving dozens of families huddled on rooftops before pushing into the Atlantic east of the Bahamas, officials said. | 0 |
Software pirates arrested The largest seizure of counterfeit Microsoft software and components ever - some \$80 million worth - along with the indictments of 11 people suspected of being involved in the piracy is being credited to a two-year investigation undertaken in a | 3 |
Hurricanes may have upset NASA #39;s schedule Hurricanes Charley, Frances and Ivan have cost NASA a least a week #39;s worth of work and upset its tight schedule for resuming shuttle flights, throwing into doubt the | 3 |
Economist Manmohan gets politically savvy! His credentials as an economist and as a Finance minister were never in doubt, but now it appears that Indian Prime Minister Dr Manmohan Singh is becoming politically consummate as the representative of a billion plus people residing in a single country. | 0 |
Pakistan will oppose India for permanent UNSC seat NEW YORK: Pakistan will strongly oppose Indias bid to become a permanent member of the United Nations Security Council (UNSC), Pakistans permanent representative to the UN Munir Akram told a group of Pakistani journalists on Saturday. | 0 |
Court ditches Qantas-Air NZ deal A planned tie-up between Australia #39;s Qantas and Air New Zealand has been thrown out by New Zealand #39;s High Court. The decision ends a two-year effort by the airlines to fight off low-cost carriers by combining forces. | 2 |
Unilever shares fall on warning Unilever shares have fallen 5.7 after the Anglo-Dutch consumer goods giant issued a surprise profits warning. Unilever said sales of ice cream and its tea drinks were quot;substantially lower quot; in July and August due to very poor weather in northern Europe. | 2 |
Prosecutors probe alleged accounting fraud by Hynix Semiconductor SEOUL: South Korean prosecutors said that Hynix Semiconductor is being investigated in connection with an alleged accounting fraud involving 1.7 billion dollars. | 2 |
Vietnam Airlines takes delivery of new Boeing 777 HANOI : Vietnam Airlines took delivery of a brand new Boeing 777-200ER, the final aircraft of a four-jet deal guaranteed by the official US export credit agency the Export-Import Bank. | 2 |
Return to Flight on Track Despite Setbacks NASA (news - web sites) is making progress in its return to flight efforts, despite suffering setbacks from a recent rash of hurricanes that have pummeled the nation #39;s space coast, according to the task force overseeing the agency #39;s work. | 3 |
US stars fizzle with pressure on If you #39;re looking for a reason the favored United States team lost for the seventh time in the past 10 Ryder Cup Matches, look at the reason the Americans were favored. | 1 |
Han wins playoff in Safeway Classic Hee-Won Han knew she needed to birdie the 18th hole to force a playoff in the Safeway Classic. quot;I just play, quot; she said. quot;Not much pressure. | 1 |
Camacho prepares to throw in the towel at Real Madrid Barring a last minute change of heart, Jose Antonio Camacho will quit as Real Madrid coach on Monday four months after starting the job. | 1 |
IRAN: Sth Korean nuke scandal stalls US sanctions push In his opening remarks to the meeting of the board of governors of the UN #39;s International Atomic Energy Agency in Vienna on September 13, IAEA director-general Mohammed ElBaradei said that Iran had made some progress in accounting for small traces | 0 |
Far-Right Surge in East Alarms Mainstream Germany Germany faced a surge of far-right parties in eastern state elections, worrying about their rise and the ensuing damage to the country #39;s image. | 0 |
Sri Lanka protestors place body outside embassy of peace broker (AFP) AFP - Hundreds of Sri Lankan protestors carried the body of a slain political activist to the Norwegian embassy in a noisy protest against Norway's role in brokering peace with Tamil Tiger rebels, witnesses said. | 0 |
Microsoft to share Office software source code with governments (AFP) AFP - Microsoft Corporation said it would share the source code of its Microsoft Office desktop software with more than 60 governments, including China and Russia. | 3 |
N.Korea Seen Using South Atomic Issue to Stall Talks (Reuters) Reuters - South Korea Monday shrugged off North\Korean criticism of the South's experiments with nuclear\materials as familiar posturing that would not rule out the\mercurial communist North's return to atomic arms talks. | 0 |
N.Korea Seen Using South Atomic Issue to Stall Talks SEOUL (Reuters) - South Korea Monday shrugged off North Korean criticism of the South's experiments with nuclear materials as familiar posturing that would not rule out the mercurial communist North's return to atomic arms talks. | 0 |
Labour pledges new worker rights Maternity leave could be extended to twelve months, as part of plans being considered by Labour, newspaper reports suggest. | 2 |
Bank spending on laundering soars Spending by banks and financial institutions on defending themselves against money laundering is soaring, a survey finds. | 2 |
Dell Cuts Prices on Many U.S. Corporate Products SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Dell Inc. <A HREF="http://www.reuters.co.uk/financeQuoteLookup.jhtml?ticker=DELL.O qtype=sym infotype=info qcat=news">DELL.O</A> on Monday said it had cut prices across a broad range of products aimed at U.S. corporate customers as the computer maker passed along price declines in underlying components. | 3 |
UN warns of hunger in Bangladesh The UN says Bangladeshi children and women face acute malnutrition after the worst floods for years. | 0 |
Fernando plans attacking approach to Shanghai Adaptability and aggression will be the keys to the Spaniard's weekend at the inaugural Chinese Grand Prix. Find out why... | 1 |
Yukos to stop oil exports to China Russian oil giant Yukos has decided to halt two-thirds of its oil exports to China, raising the stakes in its yearlong legal battle with the authorities. | 2 |
US Stock-Index Futures Decline; Citigroup, GE Slip in Europe US stock-index futures declined. Dow Jones Industrial Average shares including General Electric Co. slipped in Europe. Citigroup Inc. | 2 |
Prince Harry to help child rape victim Prince Harry has made a return visit to Lesotho to visit the child rape victim whose horrific ordeal touched the world. The young prince has pledged to help her. | 0 |
Mayors agree to wait for gas tax revenue MONTREAL - Montreal mayor Grald Tremblay is back from Toronto with a renewed vigour to improve his city #39;s aging infrastructure system. | 2 |
Euros manage major victory BLOOMFIELD TOWNSHIP, MICH. - Don #39;t cry for Team USA It would take something a lot more traumatic than this to have made dinner taste bitter last night at the Oakland Hills Country Club. | 1 |
Jerry Rice #39;s pass-catching streak ends at a record 274 games Jerry Rice of the Oakland Raiders failed to catch a pass for the first time in 274 games, ending the longest streak in NFL history. | 1 |
UK calls for Iraqis to help Dubai - Britain #39;s department of affairs on Sunday launched a televised appeal on an Arab satellite channel for Iraqis to help rescue British hostage Kenneth Bigley who faces a death threat along with two US kidnap victims. | 0 |
Asia Stocks, Oil Rise--Dollar Firm (Reuters) Reuters - Asian stocks were mostly higher\Monday, led by selected technology and metals firms, while oil\extended gains and the dollar edged up ahead of an expected\U.S. Federal Reserve interest rate rise Tuesday. | 2 |
Saving the Artistic Orphans Brewster Kahle, the founder of the Internet Archive, sues the federal government to help 'orphan works' return to the public domain. Pieces of history and culture are caught in a morass of far-reaching copyright laws. By Katie Dean. | 3 |
Papers Defend Classified Turf After watching eBay siphon off their classified advertising revenue, newspapers are turning to an outsourced auction firm, CityXpress, to fight back. By Daniel Terdiman | 3 |
Quick Read on Your Genetics A new technology under development in Australia -- geneballs -- may be used to quickly and easily tell you your genetic makeup. By Daith hAnluain. | 3 |
What to Eat on the Way to Mars Think it's tough figuring out what to whip up for dinner? Try figuring out what to eat during a two-and-half-year trip to Mars and back. Food scientists have some solutions on the plate. By Karen Lurie. | 3 |
TB May Be Global Threat Again Two separate studies by U.S. researchers find that super drug-resistant strains of tuberculosis are at the tipping point of a global epidemic, and only small changes could help them spread quickly. | 3 |
Los Alamos to Remove Nukes Within a year, officials plan to move all weapons-grade nuclear material from Los Alamos National Laboratory to the Nevada Test Site. The transfer will begin this month. | 3 |
Survey: Ex-General Will Win Indonesia Vote (AP) AP - A former general who has pledged to fight terror and fix the economy was headed for landslide win over incumbent President Megawati Sukarnoputri in Indonesia's landmark elections Monday, according a nationwide sampling of votes by an independent pollster. | 0 |
Alitalia #39;s Board Likely to Approve Rescue Plan, EU400 Mln Loan Alitalia SpA #39;s board is likely to approve today Chief Executive Officer Giancarlo Cimoli #39;s rescue plan for Italy #39;s largest airline, after he won concessions from the carrier #39;s nine major unions on job cuts. | 2 |
Mortgage lending at two-year low Levels of mortgage lending were at their weakest in two years during August, providing further evidence that the UK housing boom is over. | 2 |
China #39;s first SMS novel to be made into movie BEIJING: China #39;s first novel delivered through SMS (short message service) is being made into a film that will also be delivered to cellphones and on the Internet, state media said Sunday. | 3 |
IBM move boosts commercial grid computing IBM is continuing work to raise the profile of grid computing beyond scientific and research markets. Several grid-based commercial projects built on IBM platforms have been launched, including one at the US Environmental Protection Agency. | 3 |
Pacquiao has truly arrived By nick giongco. YOU KNOW you have reached the status of a boxing star when ring announcer extraordinaire Michael Buffer calls out your name in his trademark booming voice during a high-profile event like yesterday | 1 |
Revived Ravens enjoy blowout BALTIMORE - Here #39;s a reminder that you should address your calls to the NFL and CBS over league rules that give the Baltimore Ravens local broadcast priority over the Pittsburgh Steelers. | 1 |
Iraqi PM to Make U.N. Debut (AP) AP - Two years after he tried #151; and failed #151; to convince the United Nations of the need to go to war in Iraq, President Bush will deliver a strikingly different message when he speaks to the 191-member world body this week. | 0 |
It's Tax-Loss Season, Y'all Got winners? Got losers? Now's the time to consider matching them up to save a tax dollar or two. | 2 |
Yukos Stops Some China Oil Shipments, But Asia Unruffled SINGAPORE (Dow Jones)--The suspension by troubled Russian oil giant Yukos (YUKO.RS) of some crude exports to China has largely failed to move Asia #39;s oil market as doubts surface over the company #39;s grounds for its decision, industry sources said Monday. | 2 |
Samsung Forecasts Global Chip Sales to Slow Next Year (Update4) Samsung Electronics Co., the world #39;s second-largest semiconductor maker, said it expects global chip sales next year to grow at half of this year #39;s pace on increased supply from new plants coming online. | 2 |
China #39;s price performance remains stable, says Central bank <b>...</b> quot;The price performance in China remains stable on the whole, quot; said Governor of the People #39;s Bank of China Zhou Xiaochuan on Sunday. | 2 |
Nokia exits ringtones Nokia has bowed out of the ringtone market following poor sales from its Club Nokia website. Its exit should also smooth relationships with mobile network operators which think that their hardware providers | 3 |
No debate, it #39;s Manning You share a pepperoni pizza. You even share a Nobel Peace Prize. You do not share the NFL MVP Award. Doesn #39;t the title alone preclude splitting such a superlative? | 1 |
UN wants Iran freeze uranium enrichment work demands from the UN atomic-watchdog agency that it freeze all work on uranium enrichment, a technology that can be used for nuclear weapons. | 0 |
Five dead in Aceh as rebels battle govt troops : Government troops and separatist rebels in Aceh clashed Monday as voters in the province took part in presidential elections. Two soldiers and three guerillas died in the fighting, the military said. | 0 |
Bodies of 80 Beslan terror victims remain unidentified The bodies of 80 victims killed in the Beslan school hostage-taking, including 48 children, remain unidentified at morgues in North Ossetia and Rostov-on-Don, the southern regional | 0 |
Government Warns Americans of Iraq Travel (AP) AP - The State Department reminded Americans Friday of the dangers of traveling in Iraq, a day after two American construction workers were kidnapped from their home in Baghdad. | 0 |
UK oil firm strides into N Korea Anglo-Irish oil company Aminex signs a 20-year agreement to develop North Korea's oil industry. | 2 |
Economy Steady But Job Growth Moderate, Giving Fodder to Kerry and <b>...</b> The latest snapshot shows an economy that has returned to a moderate economic expansion of about 3 percent. At this pace, the economy is not growing fast enough to create large numbers of jobs | 2 |
Chipmaker says glut in market will bring global slowdown LONDON (CBS.MW) - Growth in global chip sales is likely to halve in 2005, Samsung Electronics said on Monday, according to reports. | 2 |
Hynix guilty of accounting fraud Hynix is bracing itself for fines, and worse, after Korean regulators found it guilty of a \$1.75bn accounting fraud. The Financial Supervisory Service (FSS) says the memory chip overstated results for 1999. | 2 |
Mortgage lending growth slows Mortgage lending rose at its weakest monthly pace in two years in August and loan approvals for house purchase fell again, showing further evidence the once-booming property market has turned. | 2 |
SBC request concerns small phone companies A group of small telephone companies said Thursday it #39;s worried that state regulators next week will allow telecommunications giant SBC Communications Inc. | 2 |
Net security threats growing fast More than 30,000 PCs per day are being recruited into secret networks that spread spam and viruses, a study shows. Six months ago only 2,000 Windows machines per day were being recruited into these so-called bot nets. | 3 |
Google making its mark worldwide Google is pronounced in a variety of ways abroad, reflecting its international popularity. In France, the search engine is quot;GooGEL quot; while Japanese say quot;GOOgaru. | 3 |
Secure access goes virtual Security-conscious IT managers stand to gain a promising new option today, as a novel tool from software virtualisation pioneer VMware enters beta testing. | 3 |
Arrest in Cisco source code theft A British man has been arrested in connection with the theft of source code from Cisco Systems. The 20-year-old was arrested on 3 September following police raids on homes in Manchester and Derbyshire. | 3 |
British music fans decry iTunes pricing Instead of quot;Think Different quot;, perhaps Apple #39;s slogan should be quot;Price Different quot;, says a group of disgruntled UK music fans. | 3 |
Group Seeks Ways to Prosecute Cybercrime Governments and private sector officials from around the world sought ways Thursday to jointly combat cybercrime, whose growth mirrors the phenomenal rise of the Internet #39;s popularity. | 3 |
Oracle hopes for big splash with Tsunami Oracle is expected to jump into the emerging market for content management software later this year. The database giant will announce a new product code-named Tsunami at its Oracle OpenWorld conference in | 3 |
A Raider defense that fit the Bill At times during Sunday #39;s 13-10 victory over the Buffalo Bills, some of the Raiders were Xs when they should have been Os and still turned the outcome into a plus. | 1 |
MOTOGP NEWS Pictures: #39;Hell at the first corner #39;. quot;I made a great start and that put me in front. That was very important because behind me hell arrived at the first corner! quot; - that was Valentino Rossi #39;s description of the turn one mayhem which eliminated | 1 |
SAINTS 30, 49ERS 27 Game grades Ken Dorsey played admirably in his first NFL start. He missed on his first five attempts while under heavy pressure, but went 18-of-27 the rest of the game and never flinched despite the hits. | 1 |
Storm Jeanne: Your experiences Dozens have died in Haiti as a result of floods accompanying a tropical storm which swept through the Caribbean island of Hispaniola. | 0 |
Video Shows 3 Hostages Beheaded in Iraq BAGHDAD, Iraq Sept. 20, 2004 - A militant group posted a video on the Internet purporting to show militants sawing off the heads of three Iraqi members of a Kurdish party for cooperating with US forces. | 0 |
US: al-Qaida, Taliban Plotting Attacks Leaders of al-Qaida and the Taliban have held a series of meetings in Pakistan to discuss how to disrupt Afghanistan #39;s upcoming elections, the US military said Monday. | 0 |
Gains by Extremist Parties Troubling Germany woke up to fears that the political tremors sparked by state elections in Saxony and Brandenburg on Sunday could lead to deeper division within their country and scare off investors. | 0 |
Organiser deported before Islamist Berlin rally BERLIN/BEIRUT - One of the main organisers of a controversial Islamist conference in the German capital Berlin has been deported to Lebanon, German officials said, less than two weeks before the planned three-day gathering. | 0 |
Senior Sunni cleric assassinated in Baghdad #39;s Sadr City A senior Sunni cleric was kidnapped and killed in the Shiite slum of Sadr City in Baghdad, said a spokesman for the Committee of the Muslim Scholars on Monday. | 0 |
EU Urges Iran to Heed UN Nuclear Freeze Demand VIENNA (Reuters) - The European Union called on Iran Monday to comply with the U.N. nuclear watchdog's demand that it suspend all activities connected with uranium enrichment, a process that can be used to develop atomic weapons. | 0 |
Chen cautious over China change Taiwan's President Chen Shui-bian says China's leadership changes are unlikely to signal a big policy shift. | 0 |
Iraq vote vowed as violence continues BAGHDAD -- Militants sawed off the heads of three hostages believed to be Iraqi Kurds in a grisly videotape that surfaced yesterday, hours after Iraq's prime minister said that January elections would be held on schedule and asserted that US and Iraqi troops were winning the fight against an increasingly bold insurgency. | 0 |
Uncertain fate for S. Africa's giants PILANESBERG NATIONAL PARK, South Africa -- Ecologist Rudi van Aarde leaned back on a veranda that overlooked dry grasslands and a group of bull elephants, his shoes still dusty from an 8,000-mile tour of game reserves in southern Africa. Van Aarde was on a mission: saving elephants from sanctioned killings. | 0 |
Jiang formally quits China leadership BEIJING -- More than a year after becoming China's president, Hu Jintao was handed the full reins of power yesterday when his predecessor, Jiang Zemin, gave up the nation's most powerful military post. | 0 |
Hamas leader killed in missile strike in Gaza GAZA CITY -- Residents said an Israeli helicopter fired a missile at a car in Gaza City late yesterday, killing a senior leader of the militant Hamas group, the latest Israeli attack in the territory it plans to leave next year. | 0 |
Ruling Kazakh party leads early ASTANA, Kazakhstan -- President Nursultan Nazarbayev's party took an early lead in elections for parliament yesterday and his daughter's new party was running second. | 0 |
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