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Claims for Gulf Environment Damage Exorbitant-Iraq (Reuters) Reuters - Iraq on Tuesday accused Kuwait and other\neighbors of inflating their already massive claims for\environmental damage due to its 1990 invasion and the Gulf War. | 3 |
Genetic Testing Challenges Medical Ethics (AP) AP - Advances in genetic testing are placing strains on the principle of doctor-patient confidentiality, as doctors grapple with whether to tell a patient's relatives when the patient has an inherited disease or mutation that could afflict other members of the family. | 3 |
Stewart to begin jail time by Oct. 8 Martha Stewart wants to do the jail time and a federal judge acquiesced on Tuesday, giving the home-making icon until Oct. 8 to report to prison. | 2 |
AOL Boosts Security America Online will offer its users a new security system called quot;AOL Passcode, quot; using SecurID, a token-authentication technology from RSA Security. | 3 |
England finally ends dreary streak against Aussies Powered by Michael Vaughan #39;s 86, England ended its miserable run of 14 one-day losses to Australia with a six-wicket victory on Tuesday to reach the Champions Trophy final. | 1 |
Lara: Let #39;s End on a High West Indies captain Brian Lara is calling on his battered troops to pull together and end the 2004 summer campaign on a high. quot;We #39;ve got a break after this so what we #39;d like to do is end on a high. | 1 |
Tampa Offense Remains Offensive It #39;s not hard to pinpoint the Tampa Bay Buccaneers #39; biggest problem as they are off to the NFC South #39;s only 0-2 start. | 1 |
Group #39;kills second US hostage #39; Militants in Iraq have killed the second of two US civilians they were holding hostage, according to a statement on an Islamist website. | 0 |
Haitians Left in Devasting Wake of Jeanne Blood swirled in knee-deep floodwaters as workers stacked bodies outside the hospital morgue Tuesday. Carcasses of pigs, goats and dogs and pieces of smashed furniture floated | 0 |
UN Reports More Darfur Violence, Displaced Camps on Edge KHARTOUM (Reuters) - African monitors will investigate reports of attacks by both African rebels and Arab militias on refugee camps and villages in Sudan's traumatized Darfur region, the United Nations said on Tuesday. | 0 |
Vikings Likely Lose Rosenthal for Year Minnesota Vikings right tackle Mike Rosenthal is likely out for the season with an injury to his right foot. | 1 |
Stewart Ordered to Prison Within 3 Weeks NEW YORK - Martha Stewart must report to prison in less than three weeks, a federal judge ruled Tuesday in granting the celebrity homemaker's request to begin serving her sentence for lying about a stock sale. Her namesake company's stock surged 12 percent... | 0 |
Airlines Told to Turn Over Passenger Data WASHINGTON - Everyone who took a commercial flight within the United States in June will have his travel information turned over to the government so it can test a new system for identifying potential terrorists, federal officials announced Tuesday. The Transportation Security Administration plans to order airlines to turn over the information in November... | 0 |
PeopleSoft #39;s Conway Glib About Oracle in Keynote SAN FRANCISCODuring his Connect keynote address at PeopleSoft Inc. #39;s user conference here on Tuesday, CEO Craig Conway pulled all the heartstringsincluding a round of applause for former PeopleSoft founder Dave Duffield, who was strategically | 2 |
AOL Offers Added Security America Online is teaming up with RSA Security in an effort to keep its users safe from online fraud and identity theft. RSA and AOL are announcing a new program called quot;AOL PassCode quot; that will encourage AOL | 3 |
Time to take back good memories On Sunday evening, if you were in Birmingham, you couldn #39;t have missed the boisterous celebrations on the roads. And you couldn #39;t be blamed for thinking you were in Lahore or Delhi, not Birmingham. | 1 |
Jazz retiring Stockton #39;s number John Stockton #39;s No. 12 will be retired by the Utah Jazz in November, honoring a point guard who spent his entire 19-year career with the team. | 1 |
Seattle returns home after two huge road wins The road no longer looks so long to the Seattle Seahawks after wins on consecutive cross-country trips on which they logged nearly 10,000 miles. | 1 |
Russian Officials Say Army Colonel Withdraws Pardon Request Russian officials say an army colonel convicted of killing a young Chechen woman has withdrawn his request for a pardon. Yury Budanov is serving a 10-year sentence for strangling an 18-year-old woman in 2000. | 0 |
Revamped eMusic Targets Indie Market (AP) AP - Nearly a year since it was sold by Vivendi Universal to private investors, online retailer eMusic has undergone a facelift that includes a panel of music critics to help users comb its trove of independent music. | 3 |
Belgian PM in Hospital After Car Accident -Agency (Reuters) Reuters - Belgian Prime Minister Guy Verhofstadt\was taken to hospital late on Tuesday after a car accident,\Belga news agency reported. | 0 |
Housing Construction Highest in 5 Months (AP) AP - Housing construction in August surged to its highest level in five months, a dose of encouraging news for the economy's expansion. | 2 |
Brazil, Germany, India, Japan make joint appeal for UN council seat (AFP) AFP - Brazil, Germany, India and Japan launched a joint bid for permanent seats on a reformed UN Security Council, saying in a statement that they backed each other's candidacies. | 0 |
First game for AMD 64-bit chip emerges Atari first with game that takes advantage of features such as more realistic graphics. But OS to run it won't appear till 2005. | 3 |
Feds order airlines to divulge passenger details The requirement is part of a trial run of a computer system that's supposed to ID terrorists before they can board the plane. | 3 |
Q A: Cybertrust CEO describes new security company's plans John Becker, the CEO of newly formed Cybertrust Inc., talks about the company's plan to deliver a range of risk management services for enterprise users. | 3 |
PeopleSoft CEO Conway maintains defiant tone At the company's Connect 2004 event today, PeopleSoft CEO Craig Conway maintained the defiant tone he has struck throughout Oracle's 15-month campaign to win control of the company. | 3 |
Philly's citywide mesh Wi-Fi net will be challenge The city of Philadelphia plans to invest in a new wireless mesh network based on the Wi-Fi 802.11b standard, and officials hope to turn the 135-square-mile city into the world's largest wireless Internet hot spot. | 3 |
HP forms new blade group HP has formed a new division within its Enterprise Storage and Servers Group designed to unify its blade system development efforts. | 3 |
IBM, Boeing join forces to seek government IT contracts Through a 10-year alliance announced yesterday, the two companies will develop advanced digital communications and information technologies for current and future Department of Defense and intelligence systems. | 3 |
Gates and Ballmer get pay raises Bill Gates, Microsoft's chairman and chief software architect, and Steve Ballmer, the software maker's CEO, each received a base salary of \$591,667 and a \$310,000 bonus for the 12-month period that ended June 30. | 3 |
AOL, RSA, VeriSign push authentication services RSA Security and America Online hope to encourage AOL customers to better protect account information. And VeriSign is announcing a new service called Unified Authentication to reduce the cost of using one-time passwords or hardware smart cards. | 3 |
Microsoft sets sights on disk-to-disk backup While some users applauded Microsoft's announcement of its Data Protection Server, others said proven storage backup vendors already have far more mature products. | 3 |
Dell, Oracle offer server-database bundle Pursuing enterprise departments and smaller businesses, Oracle and Dell Computer are offering a package featuring a Dell PowerEdge server bundled with the Oracle Database10g Standard Edition One database and the Microsoft Windows Server 2003 operating system. | 3 |
Sun woos Wall Street with pricing, features NEW YORK - Before what appeared to be a receptive audience, Sun Microsystems Inc. Tuesday fired off a barrage of product promotions, upgrades and service announcements in an attempt to retake its traditional stronghold in the financial community here in New York. | 3 |
Gender literacy gap growing The gap between the reading and literacy achievements of primary school boys and girls continues to grow in New Zealand, according to a new report. | 2 |
JP Morgan Chase CFO Dina Dublon Resigns JP Morgan Chase amp; Co. on Tuesday shuffled top management at the firm which led to chief financial officer Dina Dublon resigning from the Wall Street giant and investment banking chairman David Coulter being reassigned to control West Coast operations. | 2 |
Genetically altered grass spreads like wildfire New York -- A new study shows that genes from genetically engineered grass can spread much farther than previously known, a finding that raises questions about the straying of other plants altered through biotechnology. | 2 |
Spanish bank expanding US presence A Spanish bank has reached an agreement to acquire Laredo National Bancshares Inc. for \$850 million. Laredo-based LNB, which has a branch in Austin at 5532 Manchaca Rd. | 2 |
AMD enters the 90-nanometer zone With the economy slowly turning up, upgrading hardware has been on businesses radar in the past 12 months as their number two priority. | 3 |
Sony Releases New Smaller PlayStation 2 It #39;ll cost about the same as the regular-sized PS 2 in the US and Europe. The smaller PlayStation 2 has all regular PlayStation 2 functions such as playing CDs and DVDs. | 3 |
Global MP3 market to reach 58 billion US dollars by 2008 Worldwide market of compressed audio player, also known as MP3 player, is expected to reach nearly 58 billion US dollars in revenues by 2008, according a study released Tuesday by IDC. | 3 |
US cyclist ensnared in doping scandal PARIS Tyler Hamilton, the American bicycle racer who won an Olympic gold medal in the time trial last month in Athens, strongly denied Tuesday that he had used illegal performance-enhancing blood transfusions there and in the major race in Spain. | 1 |
TO and Eagles gather no Moss The much-hyped battle between two of the best wide receivers looked like a draw on paper, but it was Terrell Owens and the Philadelphia Eagles who were | 1 |
Makaay repeats his late goal show Roy Makaay struck in stoppage time for the second time in four days to give Bayern Munich a dramatic 3-2 second round German Cup win Tuesday at third division VfL Osnabruck. | 1 |
Bush Urges World to Unite With Iraq UNITED NATIONS Sept. 21, 2004 - President Bush, defending his decision to invade Iraq, urged a vast assembly of world leaders Tuesday to stand united with the country #39;s struggling government and said the | 0 |
Turkey must reform courts, warns Barroso Pressure mounted on Turkey yesterday to push ahead with far-ranging legal reforms, as the incoming European Commission president, Jose Manuel Barroso, said that Ankara has not yet done enough to start talks on EU membership. | 0 |
Search Engines Can Read Macromedia FLASH SDK Search Engines Can Read Macromedia FLASH SDK \\Macromedia has solved what was likely one of its biggest problems. As of this month, FLASH files (.SWF) can now be read and indexed by search engine spiders. Until now, the general rule was that spiders could not extract data from .SWF files. ... | 3 |
Olympic Champ Hamilton Denies Wrongdoing (AP) AP - Olympic cycling champion Tyler Hamilton declared his innocence Tuesday while awaiting results of backup tests for possible blood doping that could cost him the gold medal. | 1 |
Mickelson's Great Year Ending on Sour Note (AP) AP - Phil Mickelson has a green jacket in his closet to remind him this has been a great year. It just might not seem that way right now. | 1 |
Biotech Grass Breeding Raises Concerns (AP) AP - Pollen from genetically engineered grass floated more than 12 miles from experimental plots and bred with conventional plants, raising concerns that the biotechnology industry can't control the "gene flow" of its creations. | 3 |
The check #39;s in the syringe The New York Yankees, who make enough money to know better, want the rest of Jason Giambi #39;s contract voided because he admitted to using what can fairly be called a cornucopia of pharmaceuticals. | 1 |
Belgian PM in Hospital After Car Overturns -Agency BRUSSELS (Reuters) - Belgian Prime Minister Guy Verhofstadt was being treated in hospital late on Tuesday after an accident in which his car overturned, but his life was not in danger, Belga news agency reported. | 0 |
Even in eager Kosovo, nation-building stalls Five years after 'liberation,' UN officials are again working on a plan for the political status of the province. | 0 |
Gaza settlers weigh price of withdrawal Israel agreed last week to pay settlers in the Gaza Strip who voluntarily leave up to \$500,000. | 0 |
How will Turkey respond to growing rebel violence? Next month the European Union will hear a progress report on Turkish membership. | 0 |
PLAYERS MUST PROVE THEMSELVES - CURBS Alan Curbishley has warned his Charlton squad that reputation and past achievements play no part in his team selection. One of Curbishley #39;s highest-profile signings - Denmark winger Dennis Rommedahl - stepped | 1 |
Haitians Left in Devasting Wake of Jeanne The death toll across Haiti from the weekend deluges brought by Tropical Storm Jeanne was at 620, with some 500 of them in Gonaives, but officials said they expected to find more dead. | 0 |
Government opens first Enron trial HOUSTON Six former Enron and Merrill Lynch executives were accused Tuesday by a US prosecutor of disguising a \$7 million loan as a sale of energy-producing barges to quot;help Enron out of a jam. | 2 |
OECD offering a brighter global outlook PARIS The Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development raised its 2004 growth outlook Tuesday for the world economy, forecasting further expansion in Europe and a robust upturn in Japan that would outpace the United States for the first time in | 2 |
EU ready to approve Alitalia #39;s rescue plan BRUSSELS A four-year plan to rescue Alitalia will get the approval of the European Commission, as long as it does not bank on any new money from the Italian government, the commission said Tuesday. | 2 |
PeopleSoft Moves Ahead, Unveiling Major IBM Alliance Joint work with IBM is part of strategy to deliver apps that let customers use Web services to build adaptable service-oriented architectures. | 2 |
Update 2: JP Morgan Chase Reshuffles Top Management JP Morgan Chase amp; Co. on Tuesday shuffled top management at the firm which led to chief financial officer Dina Dublon resigning from the Wall Street giant and investment banking chairman David Coulter being reassigned to control West Coast operations. | 2 |
Night flights fuel dispute BRUSSELS The Belgian government struggled Tuesday to settle a dispute over a proposed increase in night flights over Brussels, a problem that could cost the country thousands of jobs with the international shipper DHL. | 2 |
Spanish bank expands in US south Banco Bilbao Vizcaya Argentaria, the No.2 Spanish bank, agreed Tuesday to buy Laredo National Bancshares for \$850 million to gain more customers in the US Southwest. | 2 |
SOCCER: Ferdinand back but Silvestre shines ALL eyes were on Rio Ferdinand as he returned to Old Trafford yesterday after an eight-match ban for missing a drugs test. However it was his central defensive partner Mikael Silvestre who stole the show with | 1 |
Vandals struggle to cope with shooting of player University of Idaho football players will wear a decal with the initials of slain teammate Eric McMillan on their helmets when they play at Oregon on Saturday, coach Nick Holt said Tuesday. | 1 |
Israel trade unions call general strike for Tuesday JERUSALEM: Israel #39;s Histadrut trade union confederation has called a general strike for Tuesday which is expected to paralyze banks in addition to the entire public sector, army radio reported. | 0 |
Canon debuts new professional SLR, Digital ELPHs Canon today introduced its new stylish five-megapixel PowerShot SD20 Digital ELPH cameras in four new colors, new thinner SD300/SD400 PowerShot cameras with 3x optical zoom, and its highest resolution 16. | 3 |
A9.com, advancing search On Wednesday, e-commerce giant Amazon.com officially launched its new A9.com search engine, with which it steps right into the battle for the Internet search market currently dominated by Google, with Yahoo! | 3 |
Vols lose top linebacker for season with injury Tennessee coach Phillip Fulmer compared losing linebacker Kevin Simon to a knee injury this week to the loss of tailback Jamal Lewis in 1998. | 1 |
Keeping India and Pakistan on track WASHINGTON More than a year ago, India extended a quot;hand of friendship quot; to Pakistan. Pakistan reciprocated and today, nine months later, the two sides are still talking. | 0 |
Marseille #39;s European Cup winning #39;Sorcerer #39; dies The Belgian won the 1993 European Cup with French side Marseille - the only time a side from France has captured European club football #39;s premier trophy - and the 1978 Cup Winners Cup with Belgian giants Anderlecht. | 1 |
Fed Raises Rates for Third Time This Year WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. Federal Reserve on Tuesday raised interest rates for the third time this year by a quarter of a percentage point and said the economy was regaining momentum, signaling at least one more to come. | 2 |
Stocks Gain After Fed Raises Rates NEW YORK (Reuters) - U.S. stocks rose on Tuesday after the Federal Reserve said the economy was regaining some momentum and raised interest rates for the third time this year. | 2 |
Feds: Cigarette Makers Lied for 50 Years WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Cigarette makers lied and tried to confuse the public about the dangers of smoking for 50 years, the U.S. government said on Tuesday as its \$280 billion case against the industry went to trial. | 2 |
Disney Aims to Find Eisner Successor LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - The Walt Disney Co. <A HREF="http://www.investor.reuters.com/FullQuote.aspx?ticker=DIS.N target=/stocks/quickinfo/fullquote">DIS.N</A> board of directors on Tuesday said it expected to find a chief executive to succeed Michael Eisner by next June and would consider both outside executives and Disney President and Chief Operating Officer Bob Iger for the position. | 2 |
Goldman, Lehman Post Strong Results NEW YORK (Reuters) - Investment bank stocks rose strongly Tuesday after Goldman Sachs Group Inc. <A HREF="http://www.investor.reuters.com/FullQuote.aspx?ticker=GS.N target=/stocks/quickinfo/fullquote">GS.N</A> and Lehman Brothers Holding Inc. <A HREF="http://www.investor.reuters.com/FullQuote.aspx?ticker=LEH.N target=/stocks/quickinfo/fullquote">LEH.N</A> reported surprisingly strong third-quarter results, indicating that sluggish market conditions this summer did not dent Wall Street earnings. | 2 |
PeopleSoft Defies Oracle Bid, Pursues IBM SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - PeopleSoft Inc. will push ahead with a new marketing alliance with IBM and other initiatives despite a recent court ruling that bolstered Oracle Corp.'s \$7.7-billion hostile bid to acquire the company, PeopleSoft's CEO said on Tuesday. | 2 |
JPMorgan Chase To Shuffle Management; Financial Chief To Leave NEW YORK -(Dow Jones)- JPMorgan Chase amp; Co. #39;s (JPM) chief financial officer, Dina Dublon, will resign at the end of the year and be replaced by Michael Cavanagh , currently head of middle market banking. | 2 |
Christopher amp; Banks 2Q Earnings Fall Women #39;s apparel retailer Christopher amp; Banks Corp. said Tuesday that second-quarter earnings fell 34 percent as it awaits the benefit of merchandise changes that are expected to help results later this year. | 2 |
Sun Woos Financial Customers on Wall Street NEW YORK -- Sun Microsystems (Quote, Chart) President and COO Jonathan Schwartz declared war on Red Hat Linux on Intel-based x86 machines in an attempt to woo financial services customers. | 2 |
Spanish bank acquiring Laredo National Bank The second largest bank in Spain is buying Laredo National Bancshares Inc. for \$850 million, according to published reports. Banco Bilbao Vizcaya Argentaria SA will acquire the parent company of Laredo National Bank for \$850 million. | 2 |
GM to Extend Interest-Free Loan Incentives-Dealers General Motors Corp. will offer its broadest and longest spread of interest-free loans later this month when it holds a three-day sale to clear inventories of 2004 model-year vehicles, dealers said on Tuesday. | 2 |
Building a secure web of Cybertrust IN a twist of the ongoing consolidation in information security, leading players Betrusted and TruSecure are to merge. The merger will lead to the formation of Cybertrust -- a large privately held info-sec | 3 |
Charles Arthur On Technology It #39;s an ill wind, as they say. If you believe the word on the anti-spam lists, Hurricanes Charley, Frances and Ivan have all disrupted one of Florida #39;s major internet businesses: spamming. | 3 |
Canon Rolls Out Digicams, Photo Printer Canon USA is introducing a portfolio of new digital photography products, including three PowerShot cameras, a 16.7-megapixel digital single lens reflex model aimed at professionals, and a budget inkjet photo printer. | 3 |
IDC: MP3 market #39;booming #39; Market research firm IDC on Tuesday reported that broad consumer acceptance of MP3 players is expected to grow the market from 12. | 3 |
England beat Aussies to make final England have beaten world champions Australia in their ICC Champions Trophy semi-final at Edgbaston. It was England #39;s first one-day international win over their fiercest rivals for more than five years. | 1 |
Football: Dynamo Kiev Given Forfeit Victory Over AS Roma The European Football Union has given Dynamo Kiev a 3-0 forfeit victory and ordered the Italian club AS Roma to play two games in empty stadiums after a fan injured a Swedish referee during a Champions #39; League match. | 1 |
Maradona returns to Cuba for treatment Fallen football legend Diego Maradona has returned to Cuba to resume treatment for cocaine addiction after a relapse confined him to a psychiatric hospital in his native Argentine and sparked unsuccessful attempts by his family to keep him at home. | 1 |
Jets: Cowart will miss two to four weeks Middle linebacker Sam Cowart, injured just before halftime of the Jets #39; 34-28 victory over San Diego on Sunday, had an MRI of the sprained medial collateral ligament in | 1 |
Colchester 2-1 West Brom: FT Report Substitute Ben May hit the extra-time winner as Colchester dumped Barclays Premiership side West Brom out of the Carling Cup in a 2-1 victory at Layer Road. | 1 |
An Early Exit from Iraq? The distinction between what politicians say on the campaign trail and what they really believe is well illustrated by the current Kerry-Bush skirmishing on Iraq: If either man really believes some of the things he #39;s saying, we #39;re in worse shape than we | 0 |
WILL PUTIN PARDON BUDANOV? Governor of the Ulyanovsk Region General Vladimir Shamanov, former commander of the 58th Caucasian Army, has signed an appeal for a pardon of his former subordinate, Colonel Yuri Budanov. | 0 |
Turkish firm pulls out of Iraq Turkish construction company Vinsan said last night that it was halting operations in Iraq in a bid to save the lives of 10 employees kidnapped by militants. | 0 |
Gaza settlers challenge withdrawal plan Israeli settlers opposed to Prime Minister Ariel Sharon #39;s Gaza withdrawal plan have filed a lawsuit in the Supreme Court, saying the government #39;s offer of cash advances to settlers willing to leave their homes is illegal. | 0 |
Priest on trial over killing of 2000 Rwandans A PRIEST accused of bulldozing more than 2000 Tutsi villagers to death as they sought sanctuary in his church during Rwanda #39;s 1994 genocide has gone on trial before a United Nations court charged with crimes against humanity. | 0 |
US Interest Rates Boosted for Third Straight Month The US central bank, the Federal Reserve, Tuesday raised short term interest rates for the third time in as many months. The central bank believes the economy has absorbed the sharp rise in energy prices that occurred earlier this year. | 2 |
Four mutual fund companies cited for improper trade: OSC spots <b>...</b> TORONTO (CP) - Canada #39;s entire mutual-fund industry faces short-term pain but could reap longer-term gain, observers said Tuesday after the news that four prominent fund companies face quot;potential enforcement proceedings quot; for improper trading. | 2 |
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