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Russian Cosmonaut to Travel With the Next Space Station Crew A Russian cosmonaut will travel to the International Space Station with the outpost #39;s next two-man crew when it launches aboard a Russian Soyuz spacecraft next month, the National Aeronautics and Space Administration said. | 3 |
Yahoo Survey Reveals #39;Web Withdrawal #39; For some people, carrying on a normal routine without the Web is almost impossible, because the Internet #39;s tools and services have become firmly ingrained in their daily lives, according to the Internet Deprivation Study. | 3 |
Alarm Raised over Antarctic #39;s Rapid Ice Flow The weight of evidence to suggest that some Antarctic glaciers are melting at an increasing pace continues to build. The West Antarctic Ice Sheet (WAIS) has been melting naturally | 3 |
Real Stand By Remon For Now With speculation over big name coaches running wild, Real Madrid executive Jose Luis Cerrano insisted that the club were set to ride out the season with Mariano Garcia Remon. | 1 |
Kansas City Royals Team Report - September 23 (Sports Network) - A pair of teams trying for a strong finish to the season meet tonight, as the Kansas City Royals visit the Chicago White Sox for the opener of a four-game series at US Cellular Field. | 1 |
Report: Two Italian female hostages executed in Iraq Another group of militants claimed Thursday to have killed the two Italian women hostages in Iraq and promised to provide film proof of their beheading. | 0 |
Indonesian President Apologizes for Shortcomings President Megawati Sukarnoputri apologized Thursday for the shortcomings of her three-year tenure, as official vote-counting for Monday #39;s presidential election reflected her imminent defeat. | 0 |
NATO to begin training Iraq army NATO allies agreed to expand the alliance #39;s training mission for Iraq #39;s armed forces after allaying French concerns that had delayed the plan for a week. | 0 |
Update 1: Germany Wants to Privatize Railway Chancellor Gerhard Schroeder said Thursday that Germany #39;s national railway should be privatized by 2008 at the latest, a day after Deutsche Bahn backed off a target of selling shares on the stock market by mid-2006. | 0 |
Small Syrian Force Withdraws From Lebanon (AP) AP - About 300 Syrian soldiers in a convoy of trucks and armored vehicles crossed the Lebanese border into Syria early Thursday, Lebanese security officials said. | 0 |
Peru Ex-President Rejects Extradition Call (AP) AP - Former Peruvian President Alberto Fujimori on Thursday rejected his successor's call, made at the United Nations, for world leaders to press Japan to extradite him to face corruption charges and allegations of involvement in death squad massacres, according to a statement broadcast by news media here. | 0 |
UPDATE 5-Interstate Bakeries files for bankruptcy Interstate Bakeries Corp. (IBC.N: Quote, Profile, Research) , maker of Hostess Twinkies and Wonder Bread, filed for bankruptcy on Wednesday after struggling with more than \$1. | 2 |
Unemployment, Oil News Keep Stocks Mixed A slowdown in economic growth and oil prices hovering around \$48 per barrel renewed fears of disappointing third-quarter earnings Thursday and kept stocks mixed. | 2 |
American Airlines seeks new credit line The parent company of American Airlines said it must refinance or replace an \$834 million credit facility or it might not be able to comply with one of the covenants of the loan, according to news reports Thursday. | 2 |
Booming Market for MP3 Players According to IDC #39;s Latest Forecast Compressed audio players - also known as MP3 players -re available in portable, home and automotive form factors and from major and minor consumer electronics manufacturers and PC vendors. | 3 |
Yudhoyono makes the cut in Sulawesi Some 300 people have shaved their heads in Indonesia #39;s Central Sulawesi province to celebrate the victory of former general Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono in this week #39;s presidential election. | 0 |
Bush ahead in swing states, will defeat Kerry: Karl Rove (AFP) AFP - US President George W. Bush will defeat his Democratic rival, John Kerry, in the November 2 election because he is leading in the polls in the key US swing states, the president's top political adviser said in an interview. | 0 |
Online Sales Jump in November 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 Monday said. | 3 |
Nations Lobby to Expand Security Council (AP) AP - Seeking more influence over global decisions, Brazil, Germany, India and Japan joined forces to lobby for a permanent U.N. Security Council seat and pledged to work together to reform the United Nations. | 0 |
Intel launches 2.93 GHz Celeron D, PCI Express chipset Intel today announced additions to its Celeron D entry level processor family. The new chips come with LGA775 packaging known from 90 nm Prescott Pentium | 3 |
Allawi Says Democratic Forces Succeeding in Iraq Iraqi Prime Minister Iyad Allawi told Congress on Thursday Iraq would hold elections in January despite the flaring insurgency, and urged the US-led coalition not to bow to terrorist forces. | 0 |
Hamilton Will Keep Cycling Gold Medal (AP) AP - Tyler Hamilton will keep his Olympic cycling gold medal because a backup drug test was inconclusive, the International Olympic Committee said Thursday. | 1 |
Musicians Sing Different Tune on File Sharing Aside from the few who speak out publicly, musicians typically sit out the debate over file sharing. Now, a new survey has found that most artists don't view unauthorized swapping as a threat to their livelihood. <FONT face="verdana,MS Sans Serif,arial,helvetica" size="-2" color="#666666"><B>-washingtonpost.com</B></FONT> | 3 |
Wonder Bread parent files for bankruptcy The parent company of the downtown Wonder Bread bakery filed for chapter 11 bankruptcy protection Wednesday in an attempt to restructure its struggling operations. | 2 |
IMF house price warning THE IMF #39;s World Economic Outlook has warned of a possible sharp fall in UK house prices, based on interest rate rises priced into future markets, the market would probably slow down significantly in the next 18 months. | 2 |
US Economic Gauge Signals Weakness A key gauge of future economic activity weakened for a third straight month in August as costlier oil spread worry among consumers and businesses, a report from a business research group showed on Thursday . | 2 |
Nokia debuts new smart phone With the economy slowly turning up, upgrading hardware has been on businesses radar in the past 12 months as their number two priority. | 3 |
Monaco down troubled PSG to go top PARIS: Monaco moved top of Ligue 1 after a late winner by striker Emmanuel Adebayor on Sunday sealed troubled Paris St Germains second consecutive home defeat. | 1 |
Okocha Calls for Caution, As Allardyce Celebrates First they beat Liverpool 1-0, then they were held to a 2-2 draw by Manchester United and last weekend, they ended Arsenal #39;s 100 Premiership winning record, when they held their nerves to pull a shock 2-2 draw at Highbury, home of Arsenal. | 1 |
UN pullback in Sierra Leone moves to security handover in capital FREETOWN : UN peacekeepers were handing over charge of security for Freetown to Sierra Leone #39;s nascent police and armed forces, the latest step in a staggered withdrawal after a five-year mission to restore calm to the west African state. | 0 |
Party Animal Dougherty Changes Ways WOBURN, England (Reuters) - Advice from mentor Nick Faldo persuaded Briton Nick Dougherty to give up partying and spend more time trying to be a winner, the 22-year-old said on Thursday after taking a share of the early lead in The Heritage. | 1 |
PM Says Iraq Succeeding In Fight For Stability 23 September 2004 (RFE/RL) -- Interim Iraqi Prime Minister Iyad Allawi told a joint session of the US Congress today that his country is making progress in its effort to create a stable Iraq despite obstacles. | 0 |
Rival Technologies Vie for 'Green' Car of Tomorrow PARIS (Reuters) - Carmakers presented new-age automobiles at the Paris car show on Thursday that could give much-hyped fuel cells a run for their money in the coming market for vehicles that do less damage to the environment. | 3 |
30-, 15-Yr Mortgages Lowest Since April WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Interest rates on U.S. 30- and 15-year mortgages fell this week to their lowest levels since early April as the housing market showed little sign of slowing despite the Federal Reserve's move to raise interest rates, mortgage finance company Freddie Mac said on Thursday. | 2 |
Frances' Insured Losses to Near \$4.4 Bln NEW YORK (Reuters) - Insurance payments to victims of Hurricane Frances are expected to reach \$4.4 billion, making it the fourth most costly storm in U.S. history, an insurance industry group said on Thursday. | 2 |
AMR Forecast Cut by Analysts DALLAS (Reuters) - Several Wall Street analysts cut their forecast on earnings for American Airlines parent AMR Corp. <A HREF="http://www.investor.reuters.com/FullQuote.aspx?ticker=AMR.N target=/stocks/quickinfo/fullquote">AMR.N</A> on Thursday while the airline's chief executive said high fuel prices had stung the world's largest carrier. | 2 |
Bank of America to Move Part of Business to Boston The move concentrates one of the company's four major business lines in the city and seeks to reassure Massachusetts officials that it is committed to the Northeast. | 2 |
Dentsply Is More Than a Mouthful Dental supply company increases cash dividend by 14 amid torrid growth. | 2 |
Mandrake gets contract to boost Linux security Linux seller gets piece of \$8.6 million French contract after exiting bankruptcy protection. | 3 |
Holiday Tech Buying Guide Fast Forward columnist Rob Pegoraro will be online to host his second discussion on The Washington Post's holiday tech buying guide and answer your personal tech questions. | 3 |
Briefly: LookSmart buys Furl.net roundup Plus: Pentagon expands access to voting site...Ad campaign touts multimedia cards...T-Mobile sells Sidekick II...Spyware bill moves to Senate. | 3 |
Danish government agency opts for open source The country's Ministry of Finance chooses JBoss on Linux over Microsoft's BizTalk to run a key system. | 3 |
Nokia touts new smart phone The phone, due out in October, comes with a built-in megapixel camera. Also on tap: a wireless home-monitoring system. | 3 |
Ex-NetScreen CEO joins start-up The former CEO of NetScreen Technologies has moved on to a new upstart. Can he make the same magic work again? | 3 |
Computer Associates ex-CEO pleads not guilty Sanjay Kumar, former chief executive of software maker Computer Associates International Inc., pleaded not guilty to orchestrating a massive accounting fraud scheme aimed at helping the company meet Wall Street targets, according to news reports. | 2 |
Wall St shuffles as deals decline Wall Street #39;s earnings growth, fuelled by two years of robust trading gains, is showing signs that it might taper off in coming quarters as a sluggish stockmarket and a less favourable trading environment take a toll on profits. | 2 |
AMR Forecast Cut by Analysts Several Wall Street analysts cut their forecast on earnings for American Airlines parent AMR Corp. (AMR.N: Quote, Profile, Research) on Thursday while the airline #39;s chief | 2 |
Jury: Sony unit to pay \$82M to San Jose company Immersion Corp. said Wednesday a jury ordered Sony Computer Entertainment Inc. and its US unit to pay \$82 million in a patent infringement case. | 3 |
Longest-necked protorosaur ever unearthed A bizarre marine reptile used a neck nearly twice the length of its body to capture its prey, 230 million years ago. Fish saw only its small head in murky waters and, when they came too close, the animal quickly | 3 |
Mandrake gets contract to boost Linux security com September 23, 2004, 10:28 AM PT. This fourth priority #39;s main focus has been improving or obtaining CRM and ERP software for the past year and a half. | 3 |
Apple v. Apple: Perfect harmony? As eager Macintosh developers waited for Steve Jobs to speak, the familiar strains of quot;Magical Mystery Tour quot; filled the darkened hall at an Apple Computer conference in June. | 3 |
System attackers up the ante The recent Internet Security Threat Report from security vendor Symantec painted a bleak picture for IT security - both now and into the future. | 3 |
Shakhtar loses top goal-scorer Kiev, Ukraine (Sports Network) - Shakhtar Donetsk #39;s Champions League aspirations were dealt a severe blow Thursday when the club learned star striker Julius Aghahowa will be out for two weeks. | 1 |
Arizona Diamondbacks Team Report - September 23 (Sports Network) - The Arizona Diamondbacks and Colorado Rockies will finish a three-game series with a doubleheader today at Coors Field. | 1 |
Broken jaw slows Kurz The avalanche of injuries that has raced across the Notre Dame men #39;s basketball roster in recent months has now touched someone yet to play one minute for the Irish. | 1 |
North Korean Missile Test Isn #39;t Imminent, #39; Japan Minister Says North Korea isn #39;t on the verge of test-firing a ballistic missile, Japanese Foreign Minister Yoriko Kawaguchi said, while expressing concern that the government in Pyongyang hasn #39;t | 0 |
Sudan has no plans to disarm #39;Arab rebels #39; A top official from Sudan #39;s ruling party said on Thursday that the government would not disarm quot;Arab rebels quot; in the troubled Darfur region, saying they were not all members of the feared Janjaweed militia. | 0 |
U.S. Economic Gauge Signals Weakness (Reuters) Reuters - A key gauge of future economic\activity weakened for a third straight month in August as\costlier oil spread worry among consumers and businesses, a\report from a business research group showed on Thursday . | 2 |
Lehman Near Deal on Enron Lawsuit-Source (Reuters) Reuters - Lehman Brothers Holdings Inc. \has tentatively agreed to pay #36;222.5 million to settle an\investor lawsuit over its role as an underwriter for Enron\Corp., a person familiar with the situation said on Thursday. | 2 |
Dentsply Is More Than a Mouthful (The Motley Fool) The Motley Fool - Investing genius Peter Lynch liked to say that to find "tenbaggers," that is, stocks that will increase in value by 10 times or more, you should start by looking close to home. In his book One Up on Wall Street, he also noted he liked to seek out companies in dull, disagreeable industries because they were often overlooked or shunned, giving individual investors a chance to purchase them at a discount. | 2 |
Controversial Swiss culture show abroad sparks domestic storm (AFP) AFP - An exhibition at Switzerland's cultural centre in Paris, which sheds the more common image of orderly Swiss society in favour of political rebellion and a vomiting actor, triggered an uproar in Switzerland. | 0 |
Democratic prospects for Hill takeover dim In a sharp change from just two months ago, Republicans are gaining a commanding position in the race for control of the US House and Senate. | 2 |
BofA to move Wealth Division to Boston Bank of America Corp. will move its Wealth and Investment Management division to its Boston offices. Of 10 senior executives that will be based in Boston, only two will come from Charlotte. | 2 |
Roddick vs. Voltchkov opens Davis Cup semifinal Andy Roddick will play Vladimir Voltchkov on Friday to open the Davis Cup semifinal between the United States and Belarus. Olympic silver medalist Mardy Fish was drawn Thursday to face Max Mirnyi in the second singles match. | 1 |
Jaguar sale drawing massive interest Jaguar Racing boss Tony Purnell says he #39;s received quot;masses of interest quot; in the F1 team since Ford announced it was putting the entire operation up for sale. | 1 |
Tennis: Kuznetsova Advances to China Open Quarterfinals US Open tennis champion Svetlana Kuznetsova of Russia has advanced to the quarterfinals of the China Open tennis tournament in Beijing with a hard-fought win over China #39;s Li Na. | 1 |
Aghahowa out of Barcelona tie Shakhtar Donetsk #39;s Nigerian striker Julius Aghahowa will miss next week #39;s Champions League match against Barcelona with a knee injury. | 1 |
UN says no nuke inspection agreement The UN nuclear watchdog said on Thursday it was still talking with Brazil about inspecting its uranium enrichment plant despite Brazil #39;s assertion an inspection deal had been finalized. | 0 |
Hostage #39;s release explained A MILITANT group said today it had released a Canadian hostage, claiming her company pledged to withdraw from Iraq. The group, calling itself The Brigades of the Victorious Lion of God, said Fairuz Yamulky | 0 |
Former Dot-Com Commerce One Eyes Closure (AP) AP - Commerce One Inc., an Internet software maker valued at #36;20 billion at the peak of dot-com mania, is poised to go out of business as a pauper. | 3 |
Mass. Firm Offers Lifetime Phone Service for \$999 WASHINGTON (Reuters) - For customers who either love to plan ahead or hate monthly bills, a small Massachusetts telecommunications firm has launched a \$999 offer of unlimited Internet-based telephone service for life. | 3 |
Bush's NASA directive clouds other missions (USATODAY.com) USATODAY.com - NASA's plans to send robots and people to the moon and Mars threaten long-planned science missions, a national science panel warns. | 3 |
Stamps.com Cancels Investor Presentation (Reuters) Reuters - Stamps.com , which sells\postage over the Internet, said on Thursday its chief executive\canceled his appearance at the ThinkEquity conference in San\Francisco due to a scheduling conflict. | 3 |
Pass Along Your Digital Music (PC World) PC World - New music sharing network allows users to amass points by referring buyers. | 3 |
Turkcell signs deal for Iran mobile network, still to pay licence fee (AFP) AFP - Turkcell, Turkey's biggest mobile phone operator, said that it had signed a licence agreement with Iran to set up the first Iranian private mobile phone network conditional on paying a 300-million-euro (366-million-dollar) licence fee. | 3 |
Open-Source Copyright Conflict Heats Up (Ziff Davis) Ziff Davis - A quick resolution to the Mambo open-source copyright dispute seems unlikely now that one of the parties has rejected an offer for mediation. | 3 |
Israel Charges Iran Replaces Saddam as Terror Exporter (Reuters) Reuters - Israel charged on Thursday that\Iran had replaced Saddam Hussein as the world's primary\exporter of "terror, hate and instability." | 0 |
British Hostage's Mom Pleads for His Life (AP) AP - The 86-year-old mother of a Briton held hostage in Iraq pleaded with his captors to free him Thursday, days after they beheaded two Americans kidnapped along with him. | 0 |
Quotes From Allawi Speech (AP) AP - Reaction to Iraqi interim Prime Minister Ayad Allawi's speech Thursday to a joint meeting of Congress: | 0 |
US warns N. Korea against missile tests (AFP) AFP - US Secretary of State Colin Powell warned North Korea against carrying out any new missile tests, saying Washington would not be intimidated into changing its policy towards the Stalinist state. | 0 |
U.S. Weighs Borrowing Oil From Stockpile (AP) AP - The Bush administration said Thursday it is weighing a request from several U.S. refiners to borrow crude oil from the nation's emergency stockpile to help offset supply disruptions along the Gulf Coast from Hurricane Ivan. | 0 |
Allawi warmly welcomed in Congress but Democrats air doubts (AFP) AFP - When Iraqi Prime Minister Iyad Allawi promised US lawmakers elections in Iraq would be held on time in January, Republicans roared and Democrats politely clapped despite their doubts. | 0 |
Berlusconi talks terrorism with Thai PM (AFP) AFP - Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi and his Thai counterpart Thaksin Shinawatra held talks on international terrorism, the situation in Iraq and reform of the United Nations, his office said. | 0 |
Israel Charges Iran Replaces Saddam as Terror Exporter UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) - Israel charged on Thursday that Iran had replaced Saddam Hussein as the world's primary exporter of "terror, hate and instability." | 0 |
Science cracks killer bug's code Scientists have decoded the complete sequence of all DNA in the bacterium responsible for potentially deadly Legionnaires' disease. | 3 |
Powell Expresses Concern Over Possible N.Korean Test NEW YORK (Reuters) - Secretary of State Colin Powell on Thursday expressed concern after reports that North Korea might carry out a new missile test but said it would not change the U.S. effort to persuade Pyongyang through diplomacy to abandon its nuclear ambitions. | 0 |
International Space Station Crew Plans New Missions STAR CITY, Russia (AP) -- The next crew for the international space station said Thursday it will conduct experiments to research new AIDS vaccines and plant growth and work on new space vehicles that will help future missions to the moon and Mars. Russian cosmonaut Salizhan Sharipov and U.S... | 3 |
Chandra Eyes The Mouse That Soared Chandra X-Ray Observatory -- Astronomers have used an X-ray image to make the first detailed study of the behavior of high-energy particles around a fast moving pulsar. The image, from NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory, shows the shock wave created as a pulsar plows supersonically through interstellar space... | 3 |
Florida Court Rejects Law Keeping Comatose Woman Alive The court said that Gov. Jeb Bush violated separation of powers when he signed a law to keep Terri Schiavo alive. | 0 |
UNCTAD releases annual world investment report FDI fell one-third in Central and Eastern European countries from 2002 to 2003. The quot;skilled but relatively cheap workforce quot; in the eight new EU member countries did not pull in investment as strongly as expected | 2 |
Future Economic Activity Gauge Falls A closely watched gauge of future business activity fell in August for a third consecutive month, evidence that companies and consumers continue to navigate an uncertain economic climate. | 2 |
Halliburton to Restructure Subsidiary Halliburton Co. said Thursday it is restructuring its troubled engineering and construction subsidiary, and would consider selling or spinning it off should the division #39;s stock performance fail to improve once costly asbestos litigation is resolved. | 2 |
B of A sets plans to move wealth management operation to Boston Bank of America Corp., following pressure from Massachusetts authorities to justify job cuts and movement of business lines out of state, today unveiled plans to locate its wealth-management business in Boston. | 2 |
Review: New Computer Mice Cutting Edge (AP) AP - If you're still pointing and clicking with the factory-issued mouse that came with your computer #151; or, heaven forbid, if you're still using your laptop's barbaric touch pad #151; it's time to upgrade. | 3 |
Scientists Make Phone That Turns Into a Sunflower AMSTERDAM (Reuters) - Scientists said on Monday they have come up with a cell phone cover that will grow into a sunflower when thrown away. | 3 |
More Authors Keeping Online Journals (AP) AP - Jennifer Weiner, author of the best-selling novels "Good in Bed" and "In Her Shoes," likes to spend three to four hours a day working on fiction. When she's done, time and family permitting, she updates her online journal. | 3 |
Why did sea monsters have long necks? Scientists working in China have discovered an ancient swimming predator with a neck nearly twice as long as its body. Neck ribs line the reptiles 5.5-foot-long (1. | 3 |
Antarctic glaciers slipping faster into the sea Antarctic glaciers are thinning and slipping ever faster into the sea, according to several new studies. Warmer air and sea temperatures are blamed, and the changes are expected to cause an appreciable rise in sea levels. | 3 |
Dangerous Exploit Targets JPEG Flaw New computer code that exploits a recently disclosed hole in Microsoft #39;s Internet Explorer Web browser is circulating on the Internet and could allow remote attackers to take full control of vulnerable Windows machines, according to warnings from | 3 |
Cingular reported to be close to DoCoMo partnership TOKYOJapanese telecommunications giant NTT DoCoMo Inc. is reportedly set to join Cingular Wireless LLC in a partnership designed to unify third-generation wireless technology, according to published reports in Japan. | 3 |
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