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GOP Voter Vault Shipped Overseas Massive database holds info on millions of voters, and is used to get people to the polls. | 3 |
Sony-led investor group finalizes buyout of MGM NEW YORK (Kyodo) A group of investors led by Sony Corp. said Thursday it has finalized a \$4.9 billion acquisition deal with Hollywood film studio Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Inc. | 2 |
Prebon three to share 70m The three owners of money broker Prebon will share in a 70m windfall following the takeover of the business by Collins Stewart Tullett, the ambitious stockbroker run by Terry Smith. | 2 |
Hurricane claims add to #39;disastrous #39; Courts trading Furniture retailer Courts yesterday issued a quot;disastrous quot; profit warning, blamed partly on hurricane Ivan #39;s effects on its Caribbean business but mainly indicating further turmoil in its UK business. | 2 |
Calif. to Post Details on Sex Offenders on Internet (Reuters) Reuters - Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger signed\a law on Friday that would post information on sex offenders on\the Internet, giving Californians easier access to details on\violators. | 3 |
Twists abound as Raiders meet #39;Raiders East #39; The Tampa Bay Buccaneers have been dubbed quot;Raiders East, quot; after former Oakland general manager Bruce Allen joined them this season, two years after ex-Raiders coach Jon Gruden jumped coasts. | 1 |
Security Worries in Baghdad, US Debates Polls The ability of Iraqi insurgents to snatch foreigners from their guarded Baghdad offices highlighted the country #39;s poor security as US officials argued whether elections could be held in towns under rebel control. | 0 |
Germany uneasy on nuclear plans after Iran talks Germany came away from a meeting with Iran on even more concerned about Tehran #39;s nuclear ambitions than before the talks, diplomatic sources said. | 0 |
Iraq in desperate need for international help: PM Iraqi Prime Minister Iyad Allawi said here Friday that success of democracy in his country requires timely assistance from the outside. | 0 |
Haiti devastated by floods: Action Against Hunger deploys <b>...</b> Following the political crisis at the beginning of the year and torrential rains in May, Haiti has now been ravaged by tropical storm Jeanne. | 0 |
Japan needs qualification The current pressing task for Japan should be to work harder to qualify itself for a seat on the United Nations (UN) Security Council but not to hurriedly squeeze the country into the body, said a Xinhua News Agency commentary. | 0 |
Demand for Durable Goods Drops in August (AP) AP - Orders to U.S. factories for big-ticket goods dropped in August, largely weighed down by a sharp decline in demand for commercial airplanes. | 2 |
China supports Russia #39;s WTO bid China and Russia yesterday completed talks concerning the latter #39;s proposed accession to the World Trade Organization (WTO). They also mutually recognized the market economy status of each. | 2 |
No return to past in Russia, Putin promises quot;There will be no turnabout in the country #39;s life, quot; said Mr Putin, who has come under intense international criticism for strengthening his political control after a wave of terrorist attacks. | 0 |
Price at Issue With PlayStation Portable (AP) AP - Sony Corp.'s PlayStation Portable, which goes on sale in Japan later this year and overseas next spring, boasts the superb image quality of its home-console counterpart. | 3 |
MIT Works to Power Computers With Spinach (AP) AP - "Eat your spinach," Mom used to say. "It will make your muscles grow, power your laptop and recharge your cell phone... " OK. So nobody's Mom said those last two things. But researchers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology say they have used spinach to harness... | 3 |
Apple offers fix for spotted PowerBook displays (MacCentral) MacCentral - Apple on Friday posted details of its 15-inch PowerBook G4 Display Repair Extension Program, which offers a fix for certain Titanium and Aluminum 15-inch PowerBook G4's that show faint white spots on the screen. The worldwide program covers repla... | 3 |
Private Canadian Spacecraft Launch on Hold (Reuters) Reuters - A Canadian team's\bid to launch the country's first manned spaceship is on hold,\although the aspiring astronauts have not given up their\attempt to win a #36;10 million prize. | 3 |
IBM Exec Outlines PeopleSoft Deal Q amp;A: The development alliance will give both companies a broader reach in the marketplace, with the first offerings coming in early 2005, says Buell Duncan, IBM #39;s general manager of ISV and developer relations. | 2 |
Mystery from the deep creates elongated puzzle Protorosaurs are a group of carnivorous (meat-eating) reptiles who lived in the Triassic Period about 206-248 million years ago. Science magazine, the leading international weekly journal of science, published | 3 |
Arsenal manager Wenger dismisses Real link Arsenal manager Arsene Wenger reconfirmed his commitment to the English premier league club on Friday, saying that he would sign a new contract before the end ofthe year. | 1 |
Rebels threaten Nigeria #39;s oil wells A rebel group battling rival militias and government forces in Nigeria #39;s oil-rich delta has threatened to target oil installations in an escalation of the conflict. | 0 |
IBM Exec Outlines PeopleSoft Deal (Ziff Davis) Ziff Davis - Q A: The development alliance will give both companies a broader reach in the marketplace, with the first offerings coming in early 2005, says Buell Duncan, IBM's general manager of ISV and developer relations. | 3 |
Court Throws Out United's Pension Filing CHICAGO, Sept. 24 (AP) - A federal bankruptcy court judge ruled against United Airlines on Friday in a procedural dispute with unions over employee pensions, ordering that its latest pension information filing be struck from the record. | 2 |
AT T Cuts Jobs at Call Centers as It Struggles to Regroup Industry analysts expect close to 10,000 job cuts in the coming weeks so that the workers can be removed from AT T's books by the end of the year. | 2 |
Europe Is Said to Be Close to Allowing Bid by Oracle The European Union's competition commissioner could be ready to allow Oracle to proceed with its \$7.7 billion hostile takeover bid for PeopleSoft. | 2 |
Noranda Says It Is in Talks With China Minmetals Noranda, Canada's largest mining company, said on Friday that it may be acquired by the China Minmetals Corporation in a deal worth more than \$4.7 billion. | 2 |
Rare Buffalo, Sacred to Some Indians, Dies (AP) AP - A buffalo considered sacred by some American Indians because it was born white has died of natural causes at the age of 10, its owner said. | 3 |
Manmohan, Musharraf hail new chapter in ties (Reuters) Reuters - The leaders of India and Pakistan on Friday hailed a new era in often-fraught relations between the two nuclear rivals and agreed to study a joint pipeline project and pursue solutions to the Kashmir conflict. | 0 |
Israeli Air Strike Kills One in Gaza Refugee Camp GAZA (Reuters) - Israel fired a missile into a refugee camp in Gaza Saturday, killing a Palestinian and extending a vortex of violence that could complicate an Israeli plan to pull out of the occupied territory. | 0 |
House Proposal Puts Less Power in New Spy Post House Democrats immediately criticized the long-awaited bill, which they said would not enact the 9/11 panel's recommendations. | 0 |
Kerry Promises to Refocus U.S. on Terror War Senator John Kerry escalated his critique of President Bush as commander in chief, saying that the Iraq invasion was a diversion from the battle against Al Qaeda. | 0 |
In Florida, the Campaigning Just Has to Wait Hurricanes have crippled the campaign season in Florida, and candidates are only now starting to make up for lost time. | 0 |
Michael Jackson's Dad Has Ulcer Surgery LOS ANGELES - Joseph Jackson, Michael Jackson's father, had surgery Friday to fix two bleeding ulcers in his stomach, his lawyer said. Jackson went to the hospital several days ago with what he had believed was food poisoning, but doctors detected the ulcers, his attorney, Deb... | 0 |
Europe Is Said to Be Close to Allowing Bid by Oracle The European Union #39;s competition commissioner, Mario Monti, is ready to allow Oracle to proceed with its \$7.7 billion hostile takeover bid for its software rival PeopleSoft | 2 |
As With Other Chip Makers, Sales Begin to Stall at Philips, Signaling a possible wider slowdown in the semiconductor industry, Royal Philips Electronics on Friday became the latest company to say that its chip sales had begun to stall, at least temporarily. | 2 |
Huff Leads Devil Rays Past Blue Jays 4-2 (AP) AP - Aubrey Huff hit his 29th homer and Mark Hendrickson pitched seven solid innings, leading the Tampa Bay Devil Rays past the Toronto Blue Jays 4-2 Friday night. | 1 |
Poll: Skins' Nickname Offends Few Indians (AP) AP - A poll of American Indians found that an overwhelming majority of them are not bothered by the name of the Washington Redskins. | 1 |
Sorry Charles, Shawn Green is a role model Charles Barkley will always be remembered for his infamous television commercial, in which he defiantly proclaimed: quot;I am not a role model. | 1 |
Cards' Tavarez to Sit Out Eight Games (AP) AP - An appeal did little to help St. Louis reliever Julian Tavarez, who was suspended for eight days Friday for applying a foreign substance to balls while pitching last month. | 1 |
Manmohan, Musharraf to address joint press conference: World News New York, Sep 24 : Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh is to address a joint press conference with Pakistani President Pervez Musharraf after their meeting Friday, officials said. | 0 |
N. Korea ready #39; to fire off missile WASHINGTON--North Korea may be bluffing, but it appears ready to launch one or more Rodong ballistic missiles capable of hitting Japan anytime it wants, according to a senior US official. | 0 |
Now Playing: The Old Man and the Football Team Tim Frisby, a 39-year-old father of six and 20-year Army veteran, will be part of South Carolina's 105-man squad dressing for Saturday's home game against Troy. | 1 |
Lab Defends Its Handling Of Hamilton's Blood Sample The head of the Olympic doping lab in Athens rejected the suggestion that human error was to blame for the deterioration of Tyler Hamilton's blood specimen. | 1 |
Google as Browser? Could Google be on the verge of creating its own Web browser, or is the guessing game about the company #39;s post-IPO plans spinning out of control? | 3 |
Inkster takes one-stroke lead over Kim Hall of Famer Juli Inkster, looking to extend to her streak of winning a tournament to eight years, shot a 5-under 66 Friday and took a one-stroke lead over Christina Kim after two rounds of the LPGA Longs Drugs Challenge. | 1 |
Liberty 75, Shock 62 Elena Baranova scored 17 points to lead the New York Liberty to a 75-62 victory over the Detroit Shock in Game 1 of their first-round WNBA playoff series. | 1 |
In NY, Pakistan and India leaders vow to seek peace UNITED NATIONS, New York The new Indian prime minister met with his Pakistani counterpart Friday for the first time and the two men promised to work together to gradually ease tensions between their nations and explore a peaceful settlement for the | 0 |
Prince Harry passes Army entrance test Prince Harry, younger son of the Prince of Wales, has passed his entrance exam to Sandhurst and is looking forward to joining the Army. | 0 |
Philips Warns on Chip Sales Europe #39;s top consumer electronics group Philips cut the forecast for its closely watched chip unit on Friday and predicted a significant slowdown for the semiconductor industry next year. | 2 |
Collins Stewart Shares Advance on Prebon Takeover (Update1) Collins Stewart Tullett Plc #39;s shares posted their biggest gain since the stock began trading in 2000 after the London-based brokerage agreed to buy Prebon Group Ltd. | 2 |
New Crew to Leave for Space Station on Oct. 11, NASA Says A new crew will be sent to the International Space Station next month, even though there are concerns about maintaining adequate oxygen and other supplies on the orbiting laboratory, NASA officials said Friday. | 3 |
UPDATE 3-Roddick hits record serve as US take control Andy Roddick broke his own fastest serve record as he helped the US take a 2-0 lead over Belarus in their Davis Cup semi-final on Friday. | 1 |
France hold edge over Spain in Davis Paul-Henri Mathieu put France in front in their Davis Cup semi-final against Spain on Friday. France were clinging on to hopes of a 2-0 lead when bad light forced Juan Carlos | 1 |
Meet the Mane Attraction of the Boston Red Sox Above Johnny Damon #39;s locker in Fenway Park are 13 pictures, the most displayed by any Red Sox player. Among them are Damon #39;s children, Damon #39;s friends and Damon with a big, silver fish. | 1 |
British envoys head to Baghdad The senior Islamic body in Britain, the Muslim Council of Britain, has sent two envoys to Baghdad to try to secure the release of the kidnapped engineer Kenneth Bigley. | 0 |
Stocks: Upbeat orders data bolster Wall Street NEW YORK Stocks moved modestly higher Friday as stable oil prices and a report on durable goods orders cheered investors at the end of a losing week. | 2 |
Lockheed Martin Wins \$3.3 Billion Navy Contract to Develop <b>...</b> After a four-year competition, Lockheed Martin Corp. won a Navy contract worth up to \$3.3 billion yesterday to develop satellites that could help soldiers and sailors communicate. | 2 |
Three little isles The ravages of Hurricane Ivan have left their mark on three islands in the Caribbean in very different ways. As people try to pick up the pieces of their lives across the region, there | 2 |
Hamilton #39;s gold no longer glitters Tyler Hamilton seems like one of the good guys. He earned the admiration of casual cycling fans after he rode through the 2003 Tour de France with a broken collarbone, yet managed to finish fourth overall. | 1 |
Too close to call EVEN after six months of constant competition between the same teams, in both forms of the game, it is difficult to call today #39;s ICC Champions Trophy final at the Oval. | 1 |
Iraq PM Asks UN States to Put the War Behind Them Iraq #39;s new prime minister, in his debut appearance before the UN General Assembly, appealed to world governments on Friday to put aside their differences over the war and help Baghdad rebuild. | 0 |
Powell implores Arafat to quit as Palestinian chief US Secretary of State Colin Powell appealed to Palestinian President Yasser Arafat on Thursday to step aside for the sake of achieving his lifetime goal of a Palestinian state. | 0 |
U.S., France on Top in Davis Cup Semis LONDON (Reuters) - Andy Roddick cracked a 155 mph delivery, two mph quicker than his own fastest serve record, to help push the U.S. into a 2-0 lead over Belarus in their Davis Cup semifinal on Friday. | 1 |
Red Sox Forget, and Yanks Gladly Remind Them In a spot similar to Game 7 of last season's American League Championship Series, Pedro Martnez got another chance Friday night. Again, he failed. | 1 |
Suzuki closes in on batting record AMERICAN BASEBALL: Ichiro Suzuki of the Seattle Mariners has 10 games to beat George Sisler #39;s record of 257 hits in a season set with the St. | 1 |
Defense Is Reacting The choreography of defensive play-calling and substitutions is one reason for the strong start this season by the Redskins' defense -- ranked atop the NFL after two games. | 1 |
Ricky Must Pay An arbitrator ruled yesterday that tailback Ricky Williams, who retired just before training camp, must repay the Dolphins \$8.6 million. | 1 |
The Rundown 1 Southern California at Stanford <em>7 p.m., TBS </em><br>Not that long ago -- 1999 to 2001 -- Stanford won three straight in this series, but times have changed. All the preseason hype was for USC quarterback Matt Leinart, but he may not even be the best player on his team. Tailback... | 1 |
Melvin Finds Role A basketball refugee when the ROckers folded, Chasity Melvin has since helped stabilize the Mystics without Chamique Holdsclaw. | 1 |
Singh Keeps Lead Vijay Singh follows up his opening-round 64 by shooting a steady 68 and maintains a two-shot lead over American Ben Curtis in Farmington. | 1 |
12 Dead, 36 Missing After Ferry Sinks in China BEIJING (Reuters) - An overloaded ferry sank in China's powerful Yellow River killing at least 12 people and leaving 36 missing, the China Daily newspaper said Saturday. | 0 |
Laws to cut California car gases Officials in Californian announce tough new regulations to stem the emission of greenhouse gases from cars. | 0 |
In China's Cities, a Turn From Factories The country's labor force is stalling as urban workers, tired of paltry pay and rat-infested apartments, seek higher wages and better conditions in rural areas. | 0 |
Panic Strikes Haiti's Storm Survivors U.N. troops fired smoke grenades Friday as crowds tried to break into a food distribution site, demonstrating growing desperation at the slow pace of relief since Tropical Storm Jeanne. | 0 |
Hussein's Trial Not Likely to Begin This Year The trials of former president Saddam Hussein and his top lieutenants likely will not begin this year, a U.S. official said Friday, contradicting a recent pronouncement from Iraq's interim prime minister that it could commence as soon as next month. | 0 |
China Aviation #39;s Ex-Chief to Face Probe The suspended head of a major supplier of jet fuel to China, under investigation for overseeing hundreds of millions of dollars in derivatives trading losses, has agreed to return to Singapore to face investigators, the company said Monday. | 2 |
Right-hander allows seven runs in three-plus innings The Expos may be playing their final few games, but the Phillies found out firsthand that this vanishing breed isn #39;t about to go quietly. | 1 |
Ruling: R. Williams Must Repay Miami An arbitrator ruled yesterday that tailback Ricky Williams, who retired just before training camp, must repay the Miami Dolphins \$8. | 1 |
Japan PM readies cabinet reshuffle to silence critics TOKYO: Japanese Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi is set to reshuffle his cabinet on Monday in order to gain the leverage to silence critics within his ruling party of his unpopular reform plan. | 0 |
Putting Their Own Stamp On Postage It seemed like a clever idea. This summer, a small Web company, Stamps.com, partnered with the U.S. Postal Service to let people put their own photos on 37-cent first-class stamps. | 3 |
Regulator Says Fannie Resisted Though Fannie Mae said it was cooperating fully with a federal examination of its accounting, its regulator says the mortgage finance company was so reluctant that the agency had to subpoena documents and witnesses and ask the Justice Department for help enforcing subpoenas. | 2 |
Why hope springs eternal Forbes magazine, which once adapted the old Marxist taunt quot;capitalist tool quot; as a slogan, has compiled a list of the 400 richest Americans that, in a curious way, is an encouragement to the rest of us. | 2 |
Braves rally, win division title Let the champagne flow. A Braves team that will forever be known for its resilient spirit captured its 13th consecutive division title in fitting fashion on Friday, with a dramatic comeback victory. | 1 |
Harry snubs senior service and sticks with the Army THE compassionate streak Prince Harry has inherited from his mother will make him a good army officer, a friend of the Royal family said last night, as it was announced the 20-year-old had achieved his dream of joining the army. | 0 |
Barcelona defeats Zaragoza 4-1 Cameroon #39;s Samuel Eto #39;o struck twice to rally Barcelona to a 4-1 victory over Zaragoza and climbed to second place in the Spanish standings after four rounds. | 1 |
U.S. Forces Kill Five Suspected Taliban (AP) AP - U.S. troops and helicopter gunships killed five suspected Taliban rebels Friday, hours after militants attacked Afghan army troops in southern Afghanistan, a provincial governor said. | 0 |
Porter Goss Sworn in As New CIA Chief (AP) AP - Porter Goss was sworn in Friday to head the CIA and lead an intelligence community that has faced intense criticism for faulty information #151; and failing to share good information it did gather #151; before the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks and the war in Iraq. | 0 |
Sony seals purchase of MGM Los Angeles (dpa) - An investment consortium led by Japanese electronics giant Sony has sealed a deal to buy the legendary Hollywood studio MGM, which will keep functioning as an independent unit producing several films a year, Variety reported Friday. | 2 |
Yankees Rally to Defeat Red Sox 6-4 (AP) AP - Those Red Sox managers just never learn. With an eerie similarity to last year's postseason debacle, Pedro Martinez took a lead into the eighth inning before tiring and the New York Yankees rallied past Boston 6-4 Friday night to open a 5 1/2-game advantage in the AL East. | 1 |
Christina Kim shoots 64, leads LPGA Longs Drugs Challenge Second on the LPGA Tour with 300 birdies, Kim fired a 7-under-par 64 to take a one-shot lead after Thursday #39;s opening round of the \$1 million Longs Drugs Challenge. | 1 |
Inkster Leads LPGA Longs Drugs Challenge (AP) AP - Hall of Famer Juli Inkster, looking to extend to her streak of winning a tournament to eight years, shot a 5-under 66 Friday and took a one-stroke lead over Christina Kim after two rounds of the LPGA Longs Drugs Challenge. | 1 |
Shanghai Free Practice 3 4: Tough to tell whats going on! Two Williams in front at the start, then two Ferraris at the end... The order is mixed up, and its hard to see what might happen in qualifying. | 1 |
Mixed Bag for United D.C. United, riding a season-high two-game win streak, will try to hand the Crew its first loss in three months as it visits Columbus. | 1 |
Cubs Win Fourth Straight Derrek Lee hits an RBI single in the 10th inning and Aramis Ramirez homers in the seventh, leading the Cubs to a 2-1 win over the Mets. | 1 |
Chiefs' Warfield Arrested An NFL player's repeated drunken driving arrests have helped expose a loophole in a national registry that allows some offenders to remain behind the wheel even after a state suspends their licenses. | 1 |
Sony-led group finalizes deal to purchase MGM Sony Corp. and a group of investors reached a final agreement to buy Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Inc. for US\$12 a share, or about US\$2.9 billion, to gain control of one of the world #39;s largest film libraries. | 2 |
Baggage handlers begin strike About 600 baggage handlers and maintenance staff working for air services provider Servisair have gone on strike at Gatwick Airport in a dispute over working conditions. | 2 |
Montgomerie misses cut at The Heritage Colin Montgomerie shot a 5-over-par 77 and missed the cut at The Heritage yesterday, five days after making the winning putt for Europe at the Ryder Cup. | 1 |
Mosley dismisses chances of three car teams FIA President Max Mosley has dismissed suggestions that the big teams could run three cars next year after Ford #39;s sudden withdrawl from the sport. | 1 |
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